Parashurameshvar Temple is a Hindu temple in the city of Bhubaneshvar in the state of Orissa, India.
Temple dedicated to the deity Shiva in his aspect as the "Lord of Parashuram" built about 750 C.E.
This title alludes to Parashuram's extended time of
asceticism, during which he worshiped Shiva as his preferred god and received
Shiva's blessings.
The temple is an early example of the Orissan version of the
Nagara temple architecture from northern India.
The Nagara style stresses verticality, with the whole temple
construction culminating in a single high point, and the Orissan form of this
design has a single massive tower (deul) above the image of the temple's major
deity, with smaller subsidiary buildings rising up to it.
The Parashurameshvar temple is the earliest example of this
fundamental layout, which has a low, flat assembly hall (jagamohan) followed by
a considerably higher and narrower tower (deul), which is around forty feet
high in this instance.
Although later Orissan temples are substantially larger—some
deuls stand over 200 feet tall—and typically feature additional structures and
buildings, they all follow the same fundamental form.
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