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Amarjeet Singh1, March 16, 2024: The Times of India

ASI is excavating a mound near a Gupta-era Parvati temple in Panna district’s Nachna area
From: Amarjeet Singh1, March 16, 2024: The Times of India

Bhopal: In a small village just 500m off the highway to Katni, in Madhya Pradesh, a group of archaeologists brushes off centuries of earth from layers of bricks being uncovered from under two mounds. They hope that what lies beneath is the oldest temple in India.


The dig sites are in Nachne village, merely 30 metres from another archaeological wonder — a Gupta-era Parvati temple — and close to Chaumukhi temple, built by the Kalachuri Dynasty (6th-7th centuries CE). It’s a site rich in history and less than 100 km from Khajuraho.

Hope to find pre-Gupta era temples: ASI official

We are carrying out this excavation with the objective of finding oldest temple in India,” ASI superintending archaeologist (Jabalpur circle) Shiva Kant Bajpayee told TOI. Nachne is around 400km east of Sanchi, the site of another Gupta-age temple, considered among the oldest in India. Sources who know about the Nachne dig told TOI that what they have found so far encourages them to believe it’s the top half of a temple.


“The oldest known temples in the country are from the Gupta era (4th to early 6th century CE). The majority of the earliest known temples of the country are in MP — Temple No. 17 in Sanchi, Nachne Parvati temple, Tigwa’s Vishnu temple and Bhumara’s Shiva temple. We are conducting these excavations with the hope of finding pre-Gupta-era temples, Bajpayee told TOI. “If we are not able to find it here, we will continue our exploration as it cannot be that only Gupta-era temples exist. There can be temples older than that,” he reasoned.