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Damaged and mutilated temple parts from Warangal fort area in an open air museum of ASI

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English: The Warangal fort is a 12th and 13th-century Kakatiya era monument found in Warangal. Built by Ganapati Deva and completed by his daughter and successor Rudrama Devi, it consists of three concentric layers of fort walls and elaborate gateways. The Warangal Fort park is near the center of the inner core of the fort. It now is a popular site for a park, lake, museums of ruins and damaged temples, and several standing though ruined temples.

The raids by the armies of Sultans from north India and then an attempt to expand the Delhi Sultanate dynasties in the 13th and 14th century, followed by a sustained attempt establish and expand Islam in the Deccan area by regional Sultans led to much damage to Buddhist, Hindu and Jain religious institutions such as monasteries and temples in Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The region is littered with numerous ruins, while the temples that have survived show extensive mutilation, defacement, beheading, chopping of limbs and damage both outside and inside covered areas of the temples. Warangal-Hanamkonda area being the capital of the Kakatiyas was a political target of the resulting wars, iconoclasm and destruction campaign.

The Warangal Fort Park and Open Air Museum and the nearby Khush Mahal (Kush Mahal) contain a display of some of the ruins and inscriptions found in the fort area. These belong to the Hindu and Jain traditions.

This is an Archaeological Survey of India managed park.
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