The next week for our day off we took a short trip to the another nearby town, called Bhojpur. This town is best known for the thousand year old, Bhojeshwar temple that houses one of the world's largest Shiva Linga. It stands proudly in the centre of the temple, 22 feet tall.
Scattered around the temple grounds were these huge, unfinished chunks of carved stone, that were intended to be part of another temple that was never built.
These were two boys who spoke very good English and were kind enough to show us around the temple grounds...and they didn't even ask for money!
There was also a small Jain temple next door so we decided to take a look. Here we found a much more realistic depiction of a lingam.
A shrine celebrating Frankshmi the god of dreadlocks!
It seemed to be a modernized version of a Jain temple since it was decorated with these odd coils and other apparatus.
Beautiful photographs... its an amazing site..
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