The nearest railway station is located in Lalitpur, while the closest major airport with daily services is Khajuraho IATA: HJR and Bhopal IATA: DBH.
The Dashavatara temple is about 30 kilometres 19 mi from Lalitpur town in Uttar Pradesh, 220 kilometres 140 mi west of Khajuraho, 250 kilometres 160 mi south of Gwalior, 230 kilometres 140 mi northeast of Bhopal, and about 400 kilometres 250 mi southwest of Kanpur. It is an ancient Hindu temple below the Deogarh hill, towards the river, about 500 metres 1.600 ft from a group of three dozen Jain temples with dharmashala built a few centuries later, and the Deogarh Karnali fort built in early 13th-century. The temple site is in Deogarh, also spelled Devgarh Sanskrit: "fort of gods", in the Betwa River valley at the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The Dashavatara temple is locally known as Sagar marh, which literally means "the temple on the tank", a name it gets from the square water pool cut into the rock in front. Though ruined, the temple is preserved in a good enough condition to be a key temple in the Hindu temple architecture scholarship, particularly the roots of the North Indian style of temple design. Also carved are secular scenes and amorous couples in various stages of courtship and intimacy.Īccording to Alexander Lubotsky, this temple was built according to the third khanda of the Hindu text Vishnudharmottara Purana, which describes the design and architecture of the Sarvatobhadra -style temple, thus providing a floruit for the text and likely temple tradition that existed in ancient India. Legends associated with Vishnu are sculpted in the interior and exterior walls of the temple. The Temple was built out of stone and masonry brick. The temple at Deogarh is dedicated to Vishnu, but includes in its small footprint images of various gods and goddesses such as Shiva, Parvati, Kartikeya, Brahma, Indra, River goddesses Ganga and Yamuna, as well as a panel showing the five Pandavas of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Built in the Gupta Period, the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh shows the ornate Gupta style architecture. It has a simple, one cell square plan and is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today. The Dashavatara Temple is an early 6th century Vishnu Hindu temple located at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh which is 125 kilometers from Jhansi,in the Betwa River valley in northern-central India.
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