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Forigner life in Khajuraho

Tourism of Khajuraho

1.Khajuraho tourism history

there were sixty-of which there are vitie remains. Now there are no more than thes India. Khajuraho is an unique large tanks: Khajurasagar, Shiv Sagar mA hajuraho after Taj, is the most frequently visited monument in Prem Sagar, used for ceremonial and domestc known all over the world for its temple purposes. The village ha population of example of Indo-Aryan architecture, It is well architecture and exquisite sculpture. The temples were built between the 9th and 11th centuries by the warrior kings of the Chandela dynasty. It is believed that 85 temples were about 8,000, most of houses with clay-tile r now dust around Khajurasaga Ninoratal, and is spreac aver an area the hlives in mu- Iso known as built out of which 25 still remain in varying hardly exceeds eight square kilometers. The terrain, dotted with mahua trees whee flowers are used to brew the local liquor degrees of preservation. Khajuraho is a small village situated along as lake known as the Khajuraho-sagar or Ninoratal in Chhatarpur District of Madhya Pradesh in the heart of central India. It is extended over an area of about 21 square kilometers. The country around Khajuraho is well watered by the Narmada and Chambal, and cradled among hillocks, offshoots of the Panna range which belong to the Vindhya mountains, a natural line of demarcation between north and south India and one of its seven principal mountain chains. permits intermittent cultivation. By the sixteenth century, Khajuraho seems to have lost all importance, turning into an obscure village. It remained lost to the outside world until 1838, when Captain T. S. Burt rediscovered the temples. Burt was on official duty, but made a detour from his itinerary to follow the trail that his palki (palanquin) hearer spoke of. He recorded that he had und what was "probably the finest sgregate number of temples congregated in one place to be met in all of India, and in an It lies 55 kilometers south of Mahoba, 47 kilometers east of Chhatarpur and 43 kilometers northwest of Panna and is accessible by metalled roads from Mahoba, Harpalpur and Satna railway stations on the Central Railway. The distance from Harpalpur to Chhatarpur is 55 kilometers. There are regular bus-services to Khajuraho from Harpalpur, Chhatarpur, Mahoba and Satna, the last place being 117 kilometers from Khajuraho. There is also a daily air service connecting Khajuraho with Delhi, Agra and Varanasi. area within a stone's throw of one another." He copied Dhanga's stone inscription, dated AD 1002, which was lying loose in the Visvanatha Temple. The very name Khajuraho, according to Alexander Cunningham, has been derived from the word 'Khajoor' the date palm trees Epigraphic records show that earlier Khajuraho was known as Khajurvatika, which means garden of date palms. Date pain trees bearing dates, once clustered round the royal ancient city during its hey days. THs view has also been confirmed by the popula belief according to which a pair of gold date palms once adorned the city-gates Khajuraho. The climate is tropical and the land, which is upland, appears flat and is segmented into basins; in ancient times rainwater was gathered in tanks and bunds it is believed￼.

2.khajuraho sound and light show :

Though the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho are describes in his chronicles a place called the main attraction to a common visitor to the Kajarra which was inhabited by "jogis with place and responsible for giving Khajuraho long and clotted hair, their skin yellowed by widest publicity and popularity among the fasting" He also described, "a great pond, toutists, these erotic figures comprise only a part of the entire range of the magnificent containing idols which the Muslims have sculptures which is full of sublime and mutilated." This lake, now known as sensuality'. It should be borne in mind that the Khajurasagar, stands 800 metres east of the Khajuraho sculptures depicting erotic figures western group of temples, which wAS are not the 'pornographic scenes to excite probably the heart of the old town. savage passion'. The unique sculptures of Khajuraho temples should be seen in totality. about a mile in length, near which are temples The religious sanctity and sacredness of Khajuraho seems to have some relevance even Although Burt wrote that some of the today among the people in the region, who in sculptures as extremely indecent and offensive, his work opened Khajuraho to future generations. Years later, Curningham held here. visited the site and in his 1864 report, counted S2 statues of which 646 were on the outside walls He studied other inscriptions, temples, loose images and ruined shrines which had turned into mounds and were scattered through the site, and was struck by the "richness of the carving" and the "profusion of sculptures". Even that great Victorian puritan Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, found the temple deeply distressing and gave his blessing to a band of pious vandals who wanted to chip the walls of the temples clean from these "indecent and embarrassing" affronts to their ignorant notions about Indian culture. It took the intervention of no less than Rabindranath Tagore who wrote an appalled letter to Gandhi, explaining that this was a national coming gereration. On this occasion a number large number throng to the place during the Shiv-Ratri festival when a big mela (fair) is While ori the visit to Khajuraho, don't forget to see the Sound and Light Show that is held every evening. The duration of the show is 50 mins. The narrator of the documentary, which is in both Hindi/English, is Amitabh Bachchan, the Great Super Star of India. Khujuraho Dance Festival is held every spring in the town of Khajuraho in order to celebrate y of the temples. It is believed that Jance basically comes from the Hindu nd attained it's maturity. This Festival altaral festival for the celebration of the Indian arts dance and music handling down from generation to generation.The main idea behind Khajuraho Dance Festival is to make the cultural heritage of Khajuraho relevant to the present society and preserving it for the treasure and could not be so cavalierly demolished because some people were uncomfortable that their ancestörs were of renowned artists and craftsmen participates in the workshop and seminar and present their art to the numerous visitors and tourist. And sexual beings. during this seven days festival, there is also a Khajuraho, however, continued to be the market in an open tield where the visitors can religious capital of the Chandellas until the get the entire local made articles of Khajuraho. fourteenth century. Ibn Batuta, an Arab This festival is known not only in our country traveller who visited the area in 1335, but also to the outside world at large.￼

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