It is situated in the north east corner of Dhenkanal town at a distance of 26 Km from the district head quarters.The temples is situated in about 2239 feet from the sea level.The temple is 60 feet in height .
there are two approaches for the temple.One is through climbing 1352 steps and the other is ‘Barabanki’ or the travel twisting way.NarasinghdevaI constructed the temple for Sri Chandrasekhar in 1246AD indicated in the Kapilas temples inserption .In the left side ‘Payamrta kunda’and in the right side ‘Marichi kunda’ exists.
The temple has a wooden Jagamohana.Sri Ganesh,Kartikeya,Gangadevi,etc are found in the temple.Patita pavana Jaganath also remain in the temple as ‘Parsa deva’.Lord Biswanath templ is also situated in Kapilas .
According to some scholors this temple is older than the Chandrasekahr jew temple,hence it is known as ‘Budha linga’ .
There are many legends about kapilas pitha and its significance.History says it was the ashram of Kapila muni,to some scholars it is the second Kailash of Lord Siva.
Dridhar swami who wrote commentary on Srimad Bhagavatham stayed ther .There are some monastries in the premises.Lord chandra sekhara worshipped by the chintapatis.
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