Khajuraho

              Khajurao

Khajurao is located in Chhatarpur District. Khajuraho has the largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous for their erotic sculptures. The temples are grouped into three geographical divisions: western, eastern and southern. . The builders didn't use mortar: the stones were put together with mortise and tenon joints and they were held in place by gravity.

The Khajuraho Temples

Kandariya Mahadeva temple- This temple is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group found at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India.  

Chaturbhuj Temple Khajuraho

Devoted to Master Vishnu (the Hindu God regarded the preserver or lifestyle on earth), the sacred Chaturbhuj forehead is the only forehead that does not have any sexual or traditional tantric statues. 

Lakshmana Temple- This temple is located in the Western Temple complex in Khajuraho. It is most well preserved magnificent temple is the east facing Lakshman a temple built by Vasata, the mother of Mahasivagupta Balarjuna. This temple is having several features of  men and women in different sexual positions that are made of sandstone. The Khajuraho temples contain sexual or erotic art outside the temple or near the deities. Some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. It has been suggested that these suggest tantric sexual practices. Some 10% of the carvings contain sexual themes and those reportedly do not depict deities but rather sexual activities between people. The rest depict the everyday life. "Twisting, broad-hipped and high breasted nymphs display their generously contoured and bejewelled bodies on exquisitely worked exterior wall panels. These fleshy apsaras run riot across the surface of the stone, putting on make-up, washing their hair, playing games, dancing, and endlessly knotting and unknotting their girdles....Beside the heavenly nymphs are serried ranks of griffins, guardian deities and, most notoriously, extravagantly interlockedmaithunas, or lovemaking couples."