Kiradu

Kiradu is a ruined temple town in the dry country west of Barmer. Its intricately carved Hindu temples were built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries under local Paramara rulers who owed allegiance to the Chaulukyas of Gujarat. Pillars, shrines and sculptured walls reveal a style closely related to the architecture of western India. An inscription of 1178 records repairs to a temple after damage attributed to Turkic attackers, preserving a glimpse of the conflicts that reached this desert region.