Meera Temple
The temple inside Chittor associated with Mirabai, the sixteenth-century poet-saint whose devotional verse is still sung across northern India.
The saint the fort could not keep
Chittor is remembered for sieges, and this temple is remembered for a refusal. Mirabai was a Rajput noblewoman of Mewar whose devotion was to Krishna, expressed in Braj and Rajasthani verse that is still sung today, and whose disregard for the obligations expected of her position put her at odds with the court. The temple inside the fort carries her name and her association. It is a small building on a site otherwise given over to military memory, and the contrast is the reason to stop at it.
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What there is to see
A modest temple in the northern Indian manner, inside a fortified plateau.
🛕 The temple
- A compact shrine on a raised plinth, in the idiom of Mewar temple building
- Small by the standards of everything else inside the walls, which is part of its character
🎵 The association
- Mirabai's bhajans are living devotional repertoire, not a historical curiosity
Getting there
Inside the fort enclosure.
🧭 Position
- On the fort plateau, on the usual circuit between the palaces and the towers
When to go
The same conditions as the rest of the plateau.
📅 Season
- Cooler months; the fort is exposed throughout
Before you go
A place of devotion as well as a monument.
🙏 On site
- Approach it as a shrine rather than as an exhibit
Close by
The rest of the fort.
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