Dashavatara Temple
The Gupta temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, popularly known as the Dashavatara Temple, is the earliest known Panchyatana temple in North India. It depicts ten incarnations of Vishnu. It was the first North Indian temple with a shikhara or tower, although the shikhara is curtailed and part of it has disappeared.
Special features of this ancient temple, which is mostly in ruins, include carved figurines of river goddesses Ganga and Yamuna on the doorway to the sanctum sanctorum, three large carved panels of Vaishnava mythology related to Gajendra Moksha, the Nar Narayan Tapasya (meditation), and the Anantshayi Vishnu reclining on a serpent.

When Arjuna came home from a contest with his prize the princess Draupadi, he called out to his mother he had won a prize; his mother who was in another part of the house answered (not knowing what he had won) that whatever prize he had come home with he was to share it with his brothers. They were duty bound to obey her command






















