Dhabalgiri gate grill shop,Odisha - Hindu temple in Byasanagar - Jajapur, India

The temple is on a small hill. Place is so beautiful. There is a mini bus(Force Bus) stand 2 or 3 km from the temple.

Very beautiful place to visit. Beautiful and peaceful place. And the view from top of the temple is so good.

Excellent place. Very peaceful and serene. A must visit for everyone. One can have a view of the whole city from the top of the hill which is just awesome. The place is also neat and clean. Do try the sugarcane juice here. It's awesome and very refreshing. Just breathtaking !!!

Dhauligiri is famous for the Buddhist Shanti Stupa located at its top. The shanti stupa was built by the ardent followers of Buddhism to mark the conversion of Great King Ashoka to Buddhism here at this place after the Battle of Kalinga.

Awesome temple of Lord Shiva. From where top view of the city is looks awesome. Behind this temple there was a Buddhist temple called shanti stupa. Just love it.

One of the famous tourist spot in puri odisha.

Lord shiva temple and shanti Boudha stupa, stupa is under construction for repairing purpose, can't see whole sculpture.

Dhauli hills (Odia: dhulligiri) are located on the banks of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha (India). It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it, and has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock, by the side of the road leading to the summit of the hill. Dhauli hill is presumed to be the area where the Kalinga War was fought. The Rock Edicts found here include Nos. I-X, XIV and two separate Kalinga Edicts. In Kalinga Edict VI, he expresses his concern for the "welfare of the whole world". The rock-cut elephant above the Edicts is the earliest Buddhist sculpture of Odisha. The stone elephant shows the animal's foreparts only, though it has a fine sense of form and movement.It is considered as one of the few remains of Mauryan art. Ashoka had a special weakness for Dhauli, where the battle was fought. The Daya river is said to have turned red with the blood of the many deceased after the battle, and enabled Ashoka to realize the magnitude of horror associated with war. He saw to it that Dhauli became an important centre of Buddhist activities. He built several chaityas, stupasand pillars there. He got abodes excavated for the recluse, instructions inscribed for officials, expounded the main principles of dandaniti(strict enforcement of laws) for the public, provided special status to his new kingdom including the stupas at Dhauli. On the top of the hill, a dazzling white peace pagoda has been built by the Japan Buddha Sangha and the Kalinga Nippon Buddha Sangha in the 1970s. The nearby region also houses Ashokan edicts and possibly a Stupa at Bhaskareshwar temple at Tankapani road as arglars. The Dhauligiri hills also has an ancient Shiva temple which is the place for mass gathering during Shiva RatriCelebrations.