“Bhubaneswar” is the capital of Orissa. The city has a history over 3000 years ago. It is also known as “The City of Temple” because of the many Hindu temples of Lord Shiva.

2. “Bhubaneswar” is the capital of Orissa. The city has a history over 3000 years ago.
It is also known as “The City of Temple” because of the many Hindu temples of
Lord Shiva.
The city has so many caves entitled as “Udayagiri
and Khandagiri Caves”. Udayagiri cave is also
known as ”Kumari parvat”. These caves are partly
artificial and partly natural with archaeological,
historical, and religious importance to the city.
These caves are situated on the two flanking hills
namely Udayagiri and Khandagiri.
These caves are written inscription from
ancient times of history. These caves have
several storeys like a building. The Udayagiri 18
caves whereas Khandagiri has 15 caves. The
inscriptions are written in Brahmi. The
sculptures are something which connects to
the history.

3. “Dhauli” is situated on the banks of”Daya river”. It is 8 kilometers south of
Bhubaneswar. This hill has vast open space and has a proclamation of Asoka
carved on a throng of rock. Dhauli has the area where “Kalinga War” was
fought. Dhauli is the place where everything tells about Asoka, while a visit to
Dhauli it feels like Asoka’s monuments stupas, pillars are telling you about the
history.

4. “Lingaraj Temple” temple is devoted to “Harihara” or “Lord Shiva”. This is
one of the oldest and largest temples. It is believed that this temple is built by
the king of Somavamsi dynasty.

5. Bhubaneswar visit gives you historical and mythological thoughts. The
architecture of temples and caves are so interesting.
“Rajarani Temple” is 11th centaury
temple, this temple does not have any
image inside the sanctum so it’s not
clearly stated that, this dedicated to
whom? This is built by dull red and
yellow sandstones which are locally
known as “Rajarani”. This temple, locally
called as ‘love temple’ because of the
carving sculptures of man and woman.

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