Neelkanth Temple, Alwar District
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Neelkanth temple is a
Hindu Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
temple in the Rajgarh tehsil, in
Alwar district Alwar is a district in the States and territories of India, state of Rajasthan in northern India, whose district headquarters is Alwar, Alwar city. The district covers 8,337 km2. It is bound on the north by Rewari district of Haryana, on t ...
,
Rajasthan Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...
, India. It is dedicated to the god
Shiva Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the Hindu deities, principal deities of Hinduism. He is the God in Hinduism, Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions w ...
(Neelkanth is one of the name given to Shiva). It is situated in an isolated hill near the
Sariska National Park Sariska Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve in Alwar district, Rajasthan, India. It stretches over an core tiger habitat area of and 322.23 km² of buffer area making 1203.34 km² total area of tiger reserve. It is comprising scrub-thorn arid ...
, and access can only be gained by a steep track. It was built between the 6th to the 9th century CE by Parmeshwara Mathanadeva, a local
Pratihara The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj or the Imperial Pratiharas, was a prominent medieval Indian dynasty which ruled over the Kingdom of Kannauj. It initially ruled the Gurjaradesa until its vic ...
feudatory.


Erotic statues

It shows a number of sculptures, including erotic ones, in the same style shown in
Khajuraho Khajuraho () is a city, near Chhatarpur in Chhatarpur district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the country's largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous ...
. File:Lingam, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district.jpg, Shiv Lingam inside Neelkanth temple File:Erotic sculpture, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.jpg, Erotic sculpture File:Sculpture of Surya, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.jpg, Sculpture of Shiva File:Standing woman, sculpture, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.jpg File:Goddess with four arms, sculpture, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.jpg File:Woman 3, sculpture, Neelkanth temple, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.jpg


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Archaeological Survey of India

Rajasthan Tourism
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