Country India Locale Avana District Balasore district Primary deities Avalokiteśvara, Chamunda | State/province Orissa Important festivals Durga Puja Important festival Durga Puja | |
Primary deity Avaloketesvara, Chamunda Architectural styles Orissan Pidha vimana temple architecture Similar Brahmani Mata Mandir P, Siddhesvara Siva Temple, Odogaon Raghunath Temple, Biranchinarayan Temple - Buguda, Nilamadhav Temple | ||
Brahmani temple (Odia: ବ୍ରାହ୍ମଣୀ ମନ୍ଦିର) is a Hindu and Buddhist temple located in Avana, Baleswar, Orissa, India built in the 10th–11th centuries A.D. It is a living temple and the presiding deity is an eight-armed three-faced Chamunda image. It is a protected monument of Orissa State Archaeology.
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Location
It is on the left bank of the river Son and is about 6 km north of Ajodhya. It is 21 km from the Baleshwar town, Orissa.
Construction
It is a pidha temple followed by a flat roofed open mandapa. The presiding deity of the temple is an eight-armed Chamunda image and iconographically it can be dated to the 10th–11th centuries A.D. The temple is a modern one but it houses a few important specimen of Buddhist and Saviate sculptures, datable to the same centuries.
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Construction technology
Vermilion and oil is regularly applied over the images by the priest, which may be harmful for the stone carvings in long run.