Barukheda Temple

Getting there

• By air

  The nearest airport is Dabok Airport, about 114 km from Neemuch town.

• By train

  Neemuch railway station (code NMH) is the main station of Neemuch city, on the Ajmer-Ratlam line. The station has two platforms and is well connected to Delhi, Ratlam, Ujjain, Jaipur, Kota and Bundi.

• By road

  Neemuch lies on National Highway 79, the Delhi to Indore highway. The temple is about four kilometres north of the town.

Why devotees come here

Barukheda Temple is a group of old temples about four kilometres north of Neemuch town, in Madhya Pradesh. Four of them are built from ancient remains in the Nagar style. All the temples here are protected monuments of the Madhya Pradesh Archaeological Department, and it was a very important city in the Rajput period.

Barukheda was a very important city in the Rajput period, just four kilometres north of Neemuch. The district government classifies the site as historic and religious, and lists Barukheda among the tourist places of Neemuch district. Four temples here are built from ancient remains, in the Nagar style.

The pillars of the Charbhuja temple to the east are influenced by the Parmar era style. The large yellow sandstone temple has a statue of Saraswati in its lower sanctum, apart from Ganesha and Bhairava. The door branches of the sanctum of the south-west Shiva temple are artistic.

A large yellow sandstone temple may date from the 16th or 17th century. A deserted Shiva temple to the south was built in Samvat 1624, in the Sawan month, on the Ashtami or Dashami day. The Charbhuja temple was once deserted. Villagers later used it, and an idol of Vishnu was installed there. Outside one temple stands a sixteen-armed Chamunda statue. The district government page calls it one of the important iconographic statues of India.

Tips for your visit

• Look outside one of the temples for a sixteen-armed Chamunda statue, shown behind Vishnu and a dancing Shiva.
• On the two door branches of the south-west Shiva temple, Kuber is shown below the right side and Ganesh below the left.
• Look at the first two pillars of the Charbhuja temple to the east, which depict Ashta Mata.

Questions people ask