The valley has two major clusters of Hindu temples and a number of roadside shrines. Of these some 151 temples have been numbered by ASI as protected pre-12th century monuments. The two largest groups are locally called as the Dandeshwar group temples ("Dandeshwar samuh mandir", 15 temples) and the Jageshwar group temples ("Jageshwar samuh mandir", 124 temples). Of these, temple number 37, 76 and 146 are the largest, all dated to the late centuries of the 1st-millennium . In the historic text, Jageshwar is also referred to as Yageshvara.