{"id":17326,"date":"2023-09-19T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17326"},"modified":"2023-09-19T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:46:12","slug":"chausath-yogini-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/19-09-2023\/chausath-yogini-temple","title":{"rendered":"Chausath Yogini Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS-1\/Art and Culture, Temples of India<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is believed that the building of the <strong>Old Indian Parliament<\/strong> may have been inspired from the<strong> Chausath Yogini Temple, Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">History of Old Parliament House<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Old Parliament Building was designed by British architects <strong>Edwin Lutyens<\/strong> and <strong>Herbert Baker<\/strong> and was constructed between <strong>1921 and 1927.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The foundation stone was laid by HRH Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, in 1921.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was inaugurated in January 1927 by <strong>Viceroy Lord Irwin<\/strong> as the seat of the Imperial Legislative Council.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>third session of the Central Legislative Assembly <\/strong>was held in this house on 19 January 1927.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following the British withdrawal from India, it was taken over by the Constituent Assembly of India, and then by the Indian Parliament after India&#8217;s Constitution came into force on <strong>26 January 1950<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For 73 years, it housed the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the lower and upper houses respectively in India\u2019s bicameral parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>About the Chausath Yogini Temple<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_J7qoqT3GwR-nzidBz7kN1qgQsavnBR9vqPxC_kce_5WhvRO9Sx1VmG0rNmmklAcN1xM-aAMUmIvurv7r9qSZxKHyDALxTQhJrCgjAz2Cf_bnokXxMgwPPcrzVFSzLGBzya_uLfAbSI23Ok8CAxjaFw\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is situated in <strong>Mitaoli village, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was built by <strong>King Devpala&nbsp; of the Kachchhapaghata dynasty<\/strong> and was the venue of providing education in astrology and mathematics <strong>based on the transit of the Sun.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Archaeological Survey of India <\/strong>has declared the temple an ancient and <strong>historical monument.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is also known as<strong> Ekattarso Mahadeva Temple <\/strong>because of the presence of a multitude of shiva lingas inside its cells.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is circular, with 64 chambers dedicated to the <strong>64 yoginis,<\/strong> and a central shrine dedicated to <strong>Shiva.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within the main central shrine there are slab coverings which have perforations in them to drain rainwater to a large underground storage.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The design of the temple has withstood earthquake shocks, without any damage to its circular structural features, in the past several centuries.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-culture\/old-parliament-madhya-pradesh-temple-8945663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS-1\/Art and Culture, Temples of IndiaIn News History of Old Parliament House About the Chausath Yogini Temple Source: IE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17327,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}