★★ The Vishnu Temple (often termed Dashavatara, meaning ten incarnations)★ is located at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh in Central India built in c. 500 AD.The temple is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today.★ Built in the Gupta Period (320 to c. 600 AD), Vishnu Temple shows the ornate and beauty seen in Gupta style architecture.★This temple is also a good resource for examining Gupta style sculptures and art.★ ★The Dashavatara Temple or Vishnu Temple also called Gupta temple at Deogarh.★ Entry frame of the Dasavatara temple.★ Vishnu reclining on the serpent Shesha (Ananta) on a side panel of the Vishnu temple of 5th century.[4] Many of these early Hindu stone temples were dedicated to a single Hindu deity. The temple at Deogarh is dedicated to the Vishnu.★ These temples made in the early part of the 6th century of the Gupta Period housed images and symbols of Hindu gods.★These temples allowed people to make contact with the gods they were worshiping.★The Temple was built out of stone and brick consisting of a single cubical sanctum that sheltered the images within.[5] Statuaries of the Vishnu were both sculpted in the interior and exterior walls of the temple.* The temple’s affiliation with the deity Vishnu can be seen by looking at the statuary of the deity seated on a coiled serpent seat that decorates the carved doorway into the temple.* There are also many sculpted panels showing the myths and tales connected with Vishnu.★★ *Vishnu Temple is a great example of early Gupta architecture. *The style and organization of the structure was the method for the decoration of many Hindu temples seen around India at the time.★ Though it is in poor condition, having a damaged tower, the temple still excludes the ornate decorations and structural complexity created back in the early 6th century.* According to Lubotsky, this temple was the prototype for the sarvatobhadra temple described in Vishnudharmottara Purana.★*★
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