The Hindu Temple v2.c12.6

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The Kandarīya Temple is a temple of Śiva, the Devī Jagadambā Temple was dedicated to Viṣṇu.* Khajuraho, the ancient Kharjūravāhaka (‘Ep. Ind.’ I. p. 139; inscription of the year 1001-2 A.D.), the ‘‘date-tree bearing’’, was the capital of the Candella Rajputs. Only 20 out of its 85 temples have survived; they were built in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Some of the craftsmen inscribed their names (on stones of the Viśvanātha Temple, c. 1000 A.D.). These names however cannot be connected with any of the major figures of which on the Kandariya temple alone there are nearly nine hundred (ASR. II. p. 419).