10-534: The Kalayat Ancient Brick Temple Complex is a ruined brick temple complex north of Delhi, is located in Kalayat town in Kaithal district of the state of Haryana , India. It comprises the several Hindu temples , including two ancient temples dating from the 8th century. This temple constitutes an important point in the series of 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra . Tradition avers that the temples are associated with
20-548: Is a Shiva temple in the Pancha Rathas style with a Linga statue and snake statue. Temples have a square-shaped shrine of the carved bricks joined without any mortar. The bricks in the sikhara are joined to form beehive patterns similar to the facade of the rock-cut chaitya hall of Ajanta or Ellora . This style of sculpting evolved from the Gupta (4-6th century CE) and post-Gupta architecture. There are stairs at
30-541: Is a town in Kaithal district in the Indian state of Haryana . It is historical town known as Kapilayat and Kapilayatana in past, named after the Vedic sage Kapil Muni , is home of the 8th century Kalayat Ancient Bricks Temple Complex . After Dwarka drowned , Arjun along with women and children went towards Hastinapur via Kaithal. As of 2001 India census , Kalayat had a population of 16,747. Males constitute 53% of
40-708: Is also a Hanuman temple and Akhara . Kalayat , where the temple complex is located, is connected by road. Rail and air links are available in the nearby major cities such as Chandigarh and Delhi . Its distance from other major cities is as follows: kaithal 30 km, Jind 52 km, Kurukshetra 77 km, Hisar 90 km, Fatehabad 90 km, Panipat 95 km, Sirsa 133 km, Chandigarh 150 km, Ludhiana 159 km, Delhi 193 km, Dehradun 222 km, Shimla 250 km, Amritsar 287 km, Dharamshala 368 km, Agra 393 km and Khajuraho 820 km. List of films , Chandrawal , Jagat Jakhar ) Kalayat Kalayat
50-707: The Haryanvi dialect of Hindi . Due to the dominance of the Mumbai -based Hindi film industry , films in Haryanvi were not extensively produced until the 1980s. The First movie of Haryanvi cinema is Dharti , released in 1968. The financial success of Devi Shankar Prabhakar's Chandrawal (1984) was largely responsible for the continuing production of Haryanvi films , although none have been as successful. Other films such as Phool Badan and Chora Haryane Ka followed with only about one out of twelve films being profitable at
60-712: The Shalivahana ( Raja Sálbán ). The name Kalayat appears to be derived from "Kapilayatana", which translates to the "home of sage Kapila ". According to local legends, in ancient times, five brick temples were located beside the holy tank. However, only two temples now survive. These temples are built in the Gurjara-Pratihara style, and can be dated to 8th century CE. One of the two surviving temples has undergone heavy modifications. The temples were built in Nagara style of Gurjara-Pratihara School . The layout of
70-672: The back leading to the Kapil Muni Tirtha comples, where pilgrims take a bath before worship, The pond is named Chyavan Giri Kund after another Vedic sage Chyavana who regained health and youth by consuming Chyawanprash (made by Raj Vaidhya twin Ashwini Kumar brothers ) at his Ashram on Dhosi Hill near Nuh in Mewat district . There is also a temple of Katyayini devi who was the daughter of Sanskrit grammarian , mathematician and Vedic Sage Kātyāyana . There
80-589: The box office. In 2000, Aswini Chowdhary won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the National Film Awards for the Haryanvi film Laddo . In 2010 the government of Haryana announced they were considering establishing a film board to promote Haryanvi-language films. At the 62nd National Film Awards , the Haryanvi movie Pagdi The Honour won the award for Best Feature Film in Haryanvi and Baljinder Kaur won
90-450: The population and females 47%. Kalayat has an average literacy rate of 70%, lower than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 65%. In Kalayat, 17% of the population is under 0–6 years of age. List of films , Chandrawal , Jagat Jakhar ) This Haryana location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of Haryanvi-language films Haryanvi films are films in
100-536: The temples indicates there were originally five temples in the Panchayatan group on the banks of holy Kapilayatna Tirtha (water tank). In the Panchayatan the main shrine was surrounded by four subsidiary shrines, which is contemporaneous to the temples of Khajuraho and Bhubaneshwar . Locally made red bricks were the main source of material for the buildings and sculptures. They were built without using any plaster or mortar. Only two temples survive. One temple
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