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Hirapur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha · 20.2250°, 85.8787°
A roofless circular shrine some 25 feet across, built in 864 CE by the Bhauma-Kara queen Hiradevi, its inner wall set with niches for sixty-four yoginis around a central Kali. It is the earliest of India's yogini temples and the model for those that followed.
Priests relate that Durga took sixty-four forms to defeat a demon, and that the victorious yoginis asked to be remembered in a temple of this shape.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Bhauma-Kara