GRANDEUR OF ANCIENTS ✨

Temple is the most important element related to the religious belief of Hinduism and also an important section of architectural activities since early India. We have found so much evidence about the religious patronization of ancient Indian kings regarding the construction of religious based architectural elements. This type of activity was followed by the Hindu kings of India in a later period. In the post Gupta period emergence of temple architecture activity was the result of religious faith and tolerance of many ruling dynasties. They built numerous temples in several arts of India of their own religious faith and style. In this regard Odisha is the most important temple architectural site among them. Huge numbers of temples were built in different places of Odisha by the ruling dynasties throughout the early medieval period. In the early period Odisha there was not a single kingdom, it was divided into many teritorial divisions. The Somavamsi was the most significant dynasty of Odisha, who ruled from 9th century C.E. to 11th century C.E. and sustained great achievements to build different styles of temples of various religion Sects.

Along the same line , the Mukteshwar temple of bhubaneswar was also built during the soma vanshi period .

The Somavamsis belonged to the Kosala or south kosala territory of western Odisha{Modern Bilaspur, Raipur and Chattisgarh, Sambalpur and Sonepur}. During their period they unified western and eastern Odisha as one and spread their cultural activities all over Odisha.