Toshali Sands

Vaital Temple. The sakti shrine at Bhubanesvara, built during the Bhauma period. Vaital means kapalika. The shrine was built for sacrificing human beings and other animals before goddess Chamunda. Images of dreadful forms of Bharavis are carved on the inner walls of the temple. It represents a synthesis of saktism, saivism Buddhism and tantricism. Structurally the temple resembles a Buddhist chaity hall.