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English: On top of the rocky hill that is home to the Udayagiri caves, close to the colonial-era Resthouse (now abandoned but preserved as a historical landmark), are the ruins of the Missing Gupta Temple.

The monument that the Archaeological Survey of India refers to as the "Missing Gupta Temple" is actually made up of three different buildings: a large temple platform with signs of a significant but vanished temple, a second rocky shrine foundation, and a pit that may or may not be a pushkarini. Inside the pit are ruins and broken section of big pillars. This is the hilltop location where the lion capital of Udayagiri was discovered and later relocated to Gwalior's Gurjari Mahal museum. Additional temple parts were similarly relocated to museums during the colonial era.

The archaeological remains found here suggest that there once was a major Gupta era temple(s) complex here, quite likely partly dedicated to the Hindu sun god – Surya. But now, other than some enticing ruins here and others in museums, everything is lost to history.