Nachna        Nachna Ram Van- M- Fort


 

 Destination Khajuraho- Nachna Kuthara

 

 

 Location: Tehsil Davendra Nagar, Panna District, 100 km from Khajuraho via Pan a, and about 4 km from GangiSalaya

 Itinerary route: We pass through the Ken river and  we continue along penetrated in the Panna National Park, after we make a detour towards Amangangi for reaching Nachna. After visiting Nachna we come-back via Gangi-Salaya- Nagod- Panna.

 

 

 

Time: One day, going and coming back

 Description: Situated near a tank and facing a hill studded with Jain temples, Nachna offers to the visitors a Gupta temple ( dating from 5th century A.D.), consecrated to Parvati goddess, and the Chaturmukka Mahadeva Temple in Pratihara style, IX century whose interior contains a magnificent linga with four faces of Sada Shiva. In this way Krishna Deva describes the temples in  Temples of North India National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2005 ( prima edition 1969).

The Parvati Temple : The second group of temples, characterised by the addition of a roofed ambulatory round the sanctum and otherwise following the plan of the preceding group, is represented by the Parvati Temple at Nachna ( District Panna in M. P), and a ruined temple at Baigram ( District Dinajpur, Bangladesh).The wall and the roof  of the once-covered passage of the Nachna Temple have now disappeared leaving an opened promenade, where the ambulatory is lighted by trellises. The Nachna Temple is also notable for carrying a square, flat-roofed cell as an upper chamber placed above the sanctum. The plain façade of the Nachna Temple was originally relieved  by a few sculptured niches and a continuous relief imitating rock formations and grottos, containing figures of birds and animals.”(pgg.8-9)

The Chaturmukha  Mahadeva Temple "The Chaturmukha  Mahadeva Temple at Nachna, in District Panna, famous for its diamond fields, carries over its sanctum a developed northern shikhara, of pancha-ratha design. The Temple preserves only a square tri-ratha, sanctum with a plain interior and a richly decorated exterior.  The interior, lighted by a doorway in the east and trellis-windows on the remaining 3 sides, enshrines a powerfully rendered chaturmukka  Shiva -linga , noted for the sublime expression of its 4 faces.  Externally, the trellis-windows on the cardinals offsets s are surmounted by a pair of niches, depicting Vidhyadaras ( divines attendants) with their consorts, crowned by a pediments of chaitya-dormers. Each corner buttress of the wall show a niche carrying an image of the Regent of the cardinal point, surmounted by an elaborate pediment. Of 5 storeys, the shikkara is covered with a developed mesh of chaitya-dormers.  All its buttresses project  beyond the shoulder of the spire, which is surmounted by a heavy amalaka.  While the windows and doorways of the temple are carved with friezes depicting dwarfs, scrolls, river-goddesses and the over-door design in the Gupta tradition,  its moulding and shikkara design, the treatment of the Regents, and decorative architectural motifs like the pediment, hearth-shaped flowers, garland-loops and square rafter ends   carved  with convention lion heads are in the developed  Pratihara style of  the 9th century."  pg.23

Beyond the temples there is a nice adivasi village, now  uninhabitated  because of the migration, of whom are very beautiful the buildings around the wide stretch.

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meta Nachna

Posizione Nachna è’ situata nel tehsil di Davendra Nagar, Distretto di Panna, a100 km da Khajuraho, da cui è raggiungibile  via Panna, e a circa 4 Km da Gangjsalaya

Itinerario Superato il Ken River ed addentratici nel National Park di Panna si devia prima di Panna verso  Amangangj per raggiungere Nachna.  Visitata  Nachna,  se ne fa rientro via GangiSalaya- Nagod- Panna.

 

Tempi di percorrenza un giorno intero

Descrizione Adagiata presso un talab e prospiciente un colle costellato di edifici di culto Jain, Nachna Khutara riserva al visitatore un tempio Gupta del quinto  secolo dopo Cristo dedicato a Parvati, e il Tempio Chaturmukha Mahadeva nello Stile Pratihara del nono secolo, al cui interno si può ammirare uno splendido linga con i quattro volti di Sada Shiva- Così Khrishna Deva descrive i due templi in Temples of North India National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2005 ( prima edizione 1969).

Il tempio gupta dedicato a Parvati : The second group of temples, characterised by the addition of a roofed ambulatory round the sanctum and otherwise following the plan of the preceding group, is represented by the Parvati Temple at Nachna ( District Panna in M. P), and a ruined temple at Baigram ( District Dinajpur, Bangladesh).The wall and the roof  of the once-covered passage of the Nachna Temple have now disappeared leaving an opened promenade, where the ambulatory is lighted by trellises. The Nachna Temple is also notable for carrying a square, flat-roofed cell as an upper chamber placed above the sanctum. The plain façade of the Nachna Temple was originally relieved  by a few sculptured niches and a continuous relief imitating rock formations and grottos, containing figures of birds and animals.”..........................."

Il tempio Chaturmukha Mahadeva."The Chaturmukha  Mahadeva Temple at Nachna, in District Panna, famous for its diamond fields, carries over its sanctum a developed northern shikhara, of pancha-ratha design. The Temple preserves only a square tri-ratha, sanctum with a plain interior and a richly decorated exterior.  The interior, lighted by a doorway in the east and trellis-windows on the remaining 3 sides, enshrines a powerfully rendered chaturmukka  Shiva -linga , noted for the sublime expression of its 4 faces.  Externally, the trellis-windows on the cardinals offsets s are surmounted by a pair of niches, depicting Vidhyadaras ( divines attendants) with their consorts, crowned by a pediments of chaitya-dormers. Each corner buttress of the wall show a niche carrying an image of the Regent of the cardinal point, surmounted by an elaborate pediment. Of 5 storeys, the shikkara is covered with a developed mesh of chaitya-dormers.  All its buttresses project  beyond the shoulder of the spire, which is surmounted by a heavy amalaka.  While the windows and doorways of the temple are carved with friezes depicting dwarfs, scrolls, river-goddesses and the over-door design in the Gupta tradition,  its moulding and shikkara design, the treatment of the Regents, and decorative architectural motifs like the pediment, hearth-shaped flowers, garland-loops and square rafter ends   carved  with convention lion heads are in the developed  Pratihara style of  the 9th century."  pg.23................................."

Oltre i templi si distende un grazioso villaggio adivasi, ora spopolato dall'emigrazione, di cui sono particolarmente ammirevoli gli edifici raccolti intorno agli slarghi interni.

 

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Variante  

Khajuraho- Nachna- Ram Van Museum- Fort  E' un'estensione del viaggio a RamVan, per visitare il locale Museo , con preziosi  reperti  della stupa di Bahrut e d'epoca gupta ritrovati in Nachna - e il Satna Madhoghar( Madhavghar) Fort, con magnifici cenotafi islamici all'esterno della cinta muraria.

Primo giorno Khajuraho- Nachna- Panna (hotel Raj Laxmi  )

Secondo giorno Panna- Satna- Ram Van Museum- Satna Madhoghar( Madhavghar) - Fort – rientro in Khajuraho via Satna Panna

 

Posizione

Nachna,

Ram Van a 18 km da Satna

Madhoghar( Madhavghar) Fort, a distanzia intermedia tra Ram Van e Satna.

 

Itinerario ulteriore

Tempo di percorrenza dell' itinerario comprensivo della variante: due giorni, con sosta a Panna presso l' hotel Raj Laxmi

Descrizione dell’itinerario ulteriore nelle sue mete

Galleria ( Ram Van Madhoghar( Madhavghar) Fort)