Deogarh is a curious site. By its localization initially, in the extreme south of Uttar Pradesh, all at the end of an odd inclusion of this State which penetrates deeply in Madhya Pradesh.
Then, the road. To go to Deogarh, one takes a road which spins full south from Jhansi to Lalitpur (in direction of Bhopal). In this large borough, one tries to find (close to the station) the junction of a small road, miraculeusement asphalted which carries out, in about thirty kilometers, with a bottom of bag: it is Deogarh...
And outward journey until Deogarh, it is to reserve two beautiful surprises.
While arriving, on the line, one will warn a large enclosure in the medium of which the tiny remainders of a blazing temple of a dark red sandstone are drawn up. It is the temple of Dasavatara (what means temple of the ten will avatara, hear will avatara of the Vishnu god). It is held on a high base that one climbs by steps. On the four sides of the temple, mythical scenes were engraved in the stone and form compositions of an extraordinary beauty, preserved perfectly well, in spite of the fifteen centuries passed since its construction. Its dating of the Gupta period is validated by its style.
The most famous sculpture is with the southern wall: it represents the Vishnu god laid down on the snake of Eternity, between two phases of Creation. His Lakshmî wife masses the legs to him. Of its navel, a stem of lotus, finished by the flower of the lotus spouts out on which sat the Brahmâ god who governs creation to come.
The photographs presented show the four wall panels.
While leaving this enchantor place where remains so much of beauty, one will go (road) to the top of a close hill, which is a center of known pilgrimage jain. There, draw up 31 temples of this religion, built to the 9-10 2nd centuries. It reigns there an excellent environment of meditation, in the medium of the hundreds of statues of Tirthankara.