Jagdish Temple
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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 24 Apr 2019 21:57
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Jagdish
Temple
 We can see the Jagdish Temple
steeple (seventy-nine feet in height) from the rooftop seating of our digs, just
a ten-minute bimble away. The temple has been used as a house of worship
continually since 1651 when it was built by Maharana Jagat Singh I. We took the side
entrance nearest our hotel and found a chap
sweeping.
   Errrmmmm not certain about the false leg, not sure what the monkey is doing so I was pleased to get to the gate in the
corner and see a little girl next to a
mural.
   Three more
murals.
   Through the
gate, past a shrine and we looked up at the
steeple. A splendid example of Nagar architecture, decorated by
beautiful and ornate
carvings. It is said that the temple cost the Maharana a million
and a half Rupees way back then. The choir was in full swing when we arrived and plenty
of smiles as we clapped and danced along for a while. No pictures allowed inside
so this is what we saw as we bimbled about on the
outside.
                     We stood at the main entrance and each
side of the gateway elephants being used as
shade.
 Later, we passed the thirty-two steps
leading up to the main entrance.
ALL IN ALL
LOVELY, DETAILED CARVINGS AND GREAT SINGING
THE TEMPLE SEEMED SO BIG IN SUCH TIGHT, LITTLE
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