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Bateshwar Hindu temples, Madhya Pradesh

The Bateshwar Hindu temples are a group of nearly 200 sandstone Hindu temples and their ruins in north Madhya Pradesh in post-Gupta, early Gurjara-Pratihara style of North Indian temple architecture. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Gwalior and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Morena town. The temples are mostly small and spread over about 25 acres (10 ha) site. They are dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Shakti – representing the three major traditions within Hinduism. The site is within the Chambal River valley ravines, on the north-western slope of a hill near Padavali known for its major medieval era Vishnu temple. The Bateshwar temples were built between the 8th and the 10th century. The site is likely named after the Bhuteshvar Temple, the largest Shiva temple at the site. It is also referred to as Batesvar temples site or Batesara temples site.

Description
The site is mentioned in historical literature as Dharon or Paravali, later as Padavali. The local name for the group of temples is Batesvar or Bateshwar temples. ==Significance==
Significance
According to Michael Meister, the Bateshwar site illustrates the conception and construction of "Mandapika shrine" concept in central India. ==Modern history==
Modern history
The site was visited and its ruins reported by Alexander Cunningham in 1882 as a "collection of more than 100 temples large and small to the southeast of Paravali Padavali", the latter with a "very fine old temple". Bateshwar was notified by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as a protected site in 1920. Limited recovery, standardized temple numbering, ruins isolation with photography, and site conservation effort was initiated during the colonial British era. Several scholars studied the site and included them in their reports. For example, the French archeologist Odette Viennot published a paper in 1968 that included a discussion and photographs of the numbered Batesvar temples. In 2005, the ASI began an ambitious project to collect all the ruins, reassemble them and restore as many temples as possible, under an initiative led by the ASI Bhopal region's Superintending Archaeologist K.K. Muhammed. ==Gallery==
Gallery
File:Bateshwar Temple Complex - 1.jpg|Ruins at the Batesvar site File:Bateshwar Temple Complex - 3.jpg|Restored temples File:Bateshwar Temples (16313906851).jpg|Two similar temples, some differences File:Vishnu Temple, Bateshwar.jpg|Vishnu temple at Batesvar File:Vishnu Temple at Bateshwar (16129557249).jpg|Vishnu temple interior from ruins File:Vishnu Temple at Bateshwar (16313711321).jpg|Vishnu temple, recreated by ASI ==See also==
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