Wangath Temple Complex

The Wangath Temple complex is a ruined group of Hindu temples at Wangath, near Naranag in Ganderbal district, about 77 km north-east of Srinagar in the Himalayas. It is credited to the 8th-century CE Karkota king Lalitaditya Muktapida, though Kalhana's Rajatarangini traces Shaiva shrines around the holy spring of Naranag back to King Jaluka, son of Ashoka. Later kings made gifts here, Avantivarman added a stone pedestal with a silver channel for bathing the images, and the shrine's treasury was plundered more than once.

Seventeen temple structures of different ages survive in two walled groups, west and east, built of local grey granite beside the Kanaknai stream, with a third set of buildings, the Mathas, between them. The western group, identified by Aurel Stein as Shiva-Jyeshthesa, has a main temple on high ground with smaller shrines around it.