Duladeo Temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, is situated on the banks of Khurau Nala in
Khajuraho and at the last edge of the southern stretch of temples’ cluster. Duladeo Temple in Khajuraho was constructed between 1100 AD & 1150 AD. This temple possesses a huge idol of Lord Shiva in its sanctum sanctorum. Here Lord Shiva is worshipped as “Holy Bridegroom’. Nice and well kept, Duladeo Temple, surrounded by an enclosure with super manicured gardens, is also called “Kunwar Math”. The Duladeo Temple is about a mile and a half away from the Western Group of Khajuraho Temples. It is important for its exquisitely carved bracket capitals. The effigy of the four-armed Qana with a conch shell, almost flying away from the column is a beautiful example of carving. The pillars in Khajuraho temples served a structural function for supporting the shaded balconied windows, but the ingenious sculptures transformed the brackets of these capitals into pleasing projections of form with a seemingly logical inevitability.