Kosaleswar

Kosaleswar, also spelled Kushaleswar, is a Shiva temple at Deogaon on the bank of the Kusei river near Anandapur in Keonjhar district. A government tourism page dates the shrine to about 900 CE, and one article calls it the oldest Shiva temple of the district. It serves as the presiding deity for people of the surrounding villages, and a stone embankment protects it from the river. Maha Shivaratri is the main festival, with a fair lasting more than a fortnight, along with Jagar Mela and Sravana Purnima.

One account credits the temple to the Somavamsi king Jajati Keshari, which would fit the 900 CE date given by the district's tourism page, but this attribution rests on a single article and is not confirmed by inscription. The deity is worshipped as Shiva in the Shaiva tradition, and the local...