Bateshwar Temple

An amazing place to visit. This place has lot of historical significance, the ruins are almost 1400 years old. The place has not much infrastructural development but it is surely a must visit place. It is very peaceful and pleasing to eyes. The best time to go here is on a pleasant day with slightly cool weather. There are more than 100 shiv temples found and established with assembled ruins.

The Bateshwar Hindu temples (or Batesara, Bateśvar) are a group of nearly 200 sandstone Hindu temples and their ruins in north Madhya Pradesh in post-Gupta, early Gurjara-Pratiharastyle of North Indian temple architecture. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Gwalior and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Morena town Madhya Pradesh Directorate of Archaeology, this group of 200 temples were built during the reign of Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty.According to Michael Meister, an art historian and a professor specializing in Indian temple architecture, the earliest temples in the Bateshwar group near Gwalior are likely from the 750-800 CE period. The temples were destroyed after the 13th century; it is not clear if this was by an earthquake, or Muslim forces.The site was visited and its ruins reported by Alexander Cunningham in 1882 as a "collection of more than 100 temples large and small to the southeast of Paravali Padavali", the latter with a "very fine old temple" Bateshwar was notified by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as a protected site in 1920. Limited recovery, standardized temple numbering, ruins isolation with photography, and site conservation effort was initiated during the colonial British era. Several scholars studied the site and included them in their reports. For example, the French archeologist Odette Viennot published a paper in 1968 that included a discussion and photographs of the numbered Batesvar temples. In 2005, the ASI began an ambitious project to collect all the ruins, reassemble them and restore as many temples as possible, under an initiative led by the ASI Bhopal region's Superintending Archaeologist K.K. Muhammed.Under Muhammed's leadership, some 60 temples were restored. Muhammed has continued to campaign for the site's further restoration and calls it "my place of pilgrimage. I come here once in every three months. I am passionate about this temple complex." According to Muhammed, the Bateshwar complex was "built on the architectural principles enunciated in two Sanskrit Hindu temple architecture texts, Manasara Shilpa Shastra composed in the 4th century CE, and Mayamata Vastu Shastra written in the 7th century CE". He followed these texts as his team of over 50 workers collected pieces of the ruins from the site and like a jigsaw puzzle tried to put it back together.The site has been a "massive mounds of rubble" of temple parts, states Subramanian, with "ruins lying everywhere".

More than 1000 years old series of lord Shiva temples. Each temple build up as devotion towards completion of education. Temples were demolished by invaders . You can easily find idols with broken heads ,which is symbolic. Govt trying to recreate/ conserve it since year 2000. Awareness of this place is still very low and history is partially known. Must visit place which have hidden but historical importance.

You will cry after seeing how peaceful community has destroyed such beautiful Hindu heritage. And what we did we name them roads, parks.

There are many shiv temples but some temples have been destroyed. Good place visit with family and picnic spot.... Some facilities are available here like that public toilet and parking. You can reach there easily by Google map.... So visit here and enjoy it..