File:Rama temple, Sirpur Chhattisgarh.jpg

Object location	21° 21′ 06.74″ N, 82° 11′ 16.3″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	21.351873; 82.187862

This is one of earliest stellate plan temples known in India. It reflects innovation and experimentation over traditional square plan, notably in a central Indian region of Dakshina Kosala in the 2nd half of the first millennium – a region previously believed to have been merely tribal and non-Hindu.

The Rama temple was a part of the much large Hindu temples and monastery complex of Sirpur. The other Lakshmana temple is just few hundred yards away, though a modern road passes between them. The Rama-Lakshmana temples site has numerous empty foundations of lost temples. Nearby is a museum with hundreds of temple parts and Hindu artwork recovered from Sirpur.

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