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Tourist Destinations of Rajasthan
Chittaurgarh
Meerabai
Temple
Meerabai
Temple, built in Indo-Aryan Style and assosiated with the mystic poetess
Meerabai.
About The Temple :
This temple was built during the reign of Maharana Kumbha and later given
to Mira Bai when she needed a place to worship Lord Krishna, the main
subject of her poems. It is a good example of Rajput architecture,
designed in North Indian style on a raised plinth, with a conical roof
over the inner sanctum. The dome is carved in a circle of five human
bodies with one head that symbolises belief that the people of the four
castes (Varnas), as well as the fifth caste Harijans, can all realise God.
Within the sanctum are paintings of Lord Krishna and of Mira Bai in
devotion (bhakti) to the god. The open colonnade around the sanctum has
four small pavilions. A small chhatri stands in the temple's forecourt,
said to have been built in memory of Mira's saintly guru, Rai Das (Swami
Ravidas) of Varanasi, a Harijan. The saint's footprints are marked on the
floor of this small shrine.
Chittaurgarh in Rajasthan Map
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