Jageshwara Temples: Archaeo Cultural Perspective

Jageshwara in Almora district of Uttarakhand in India is in the cradle of nature with high mountains, tall devadar trees, deep valleys and sinuous roads. The serene beauty, the heavenly feeling and the divine experience and above all 124 temples; big, small and even smaller in size, are mesmerising. These were constructed in c. 7th-8th cent. C.E to c. 16th cent. C.E. by Katyuri and Chanda Kings. Jageshwara is the place referred as 'Nagesh' in the list of twelve Jyotirlingas.

Dr. Niharika, born on 23rd September, 1958 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in India is great lover of history, archaeology, literature and nature. She has passed graduation and post graduation in AIHC & Archaeology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and did her Ph.D. on "Stone Beads in Ancient India" from the same institution. At present she is teaching Ancient History and Archaeology in Sri A.K. Post Graduate College in Varanasi. She is Chief Editor and Publisher of an International bi-annual journal named Arnava.

In year 2002 I with my family went to Jageshwara for the first time. It was a pleasure trip and it was not actually a trip of this place. We were originally searching for Bageshwara on net and incidentally found the name of this place. In comparison to Bageshwara it seemed to be more peaceful, having lesser tourist load and thus lesser crowd and noise.

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