Khajuresvara Temple Complex, Sergarh

The Khajuresvara temple complex is a group of deulas at Khajurasahi, Sergarh, in Balasore district, Odisha, set on raised ground in the middle of the village. Linked with both Buddhist and Shaiva-Shakta worship, the complex was built in the 9th–10th centuries in the Kalinga style, and stone idols are kept in each shrine.

The largest deula, Khajuresvara itself, was destroyed, and its idols were moved into a newly built cement shrine of the pidha type. The surviving older deulas are in the khakara style, apart from one in the rekha style, and a khakara deula of the 8th century still stands. The images worshipped include Shiva, Durga, Ganesha, Vaishnavi and Purushottama; some date from the Somavamshi period of the 10th–11th centuries and are mostly carved in laterite, known locally as mankada pathara.