Puratattva
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Navigating Indian History through its Architecture. Puratattva is a Sanskrit word that translates to Truth of the Old. Back in 2006, while visiting different heritage sites across India, they realized that it was not easy to obtain relevant information about these sites, over the web. Most of the relevant and authentic information was confined to various reference books and journals, far from..
Puratattva
5d ago
Aundha Naganatha is a town in the Hingoli district of Maharashtra. The city’s Naganatha temple is considered a jyotirlinga equating to the Nagesh Jyotirlinga mentioned in the Shiva Purana. The twelve Jyotirlingas are enumerated in the Kotirudra-samhita of Shiva Purana. The Purana mentions Nagesh Jyotirlinga as the tenth jyotirlinga situated in Darukavana. It is generally ..read more
Puratattva
3w ago
Armori is a municipal council city in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. The city is surrounded in the west by the Wainganga River and in the east and the south by the Gadhavi River. The district gazetteer informs that in the olden times, the city was a great entrepot for the smelted iron coming from ..read more
Puratattva
1M ago
Amwa is a village in the Jalna district of Maharashtra. The village held significant importance among archaeologists and historians for its twelfth-century CE Seuna period temple. It is among very few temples depicting twenty-four shaktis, corresponding to Vishnu’s twenty-four forms, over its exterior walls. Burgess first described the temple in 1914. He states, “…Hindus also ..read more
Puratattva
1M ago
Anjaneri is a village in the Nashik district of Maharashtra. The village is situated at the foothills of the Anjaneri (or Anjani) mountain, named after Anjana, the mother of Hanuman. The mountain is a part of the Trimbakeshwar Range and consists of several other peaks of interest. Brahma Purana narrates Anjana’s story and Hanuman’s birth ..read more
Puratattva
1M ago
Ambhai is a small village in the Aurangabad (renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) district of Maharashtra. This otherwise nondescript village is famous for its Wadeshwara temple. Wadeshwara Temple – The temple faces east and consists of three garbha-grhasi (sanctum sanctorum), each in the south, west, and north. All the garbhagrhas are connected with a single common ..read more
Puratattva
5M ago
The Ambivali Cave (sometimes also called Ambivale Cave in past literature) is situated about 2 km south of Singhdhol village and 5 km west of Jambrung village, in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. Karjat is the main large city in the vicinity of the cave. The cave has been known to the scholar community since ..read more
Indian History and Architecture
5M ago
Ambajogai is a municipality in the Beed district of Maharashtra state. The town is famous for the samadhi (mausoleum) of Mukundaraj, one of the earliest Marathi poets. The town was known as Amba or Ambe during the medieval period and its Sanktitized name was Amrapura as evident from the Sakaleshvara inscription. The Yogeshvari temple inscription ..read more
Indian History and Architecture
6M ago
The modern town of Vidisha is situated in the southeast of River Betwa, the latter forming its western boundary. During the medieval period, the town was known as Bhilsa (or Bhelsa), the name mentioned in a Paramara period inscription.1 In 1956, it was renamed Vidisha. Bhilsa was settled sometime sometime during the 8th-9th century CE ..read more
Indian History and Architecture
9M ago
The hill of Udaigiri (also spelled Udayagiri, Udaygiri, etc.) is located in the Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh. It stretches about 2.5 km from the northeast to the southwest reaching its highest altitude of 350 feet at the northeast end. A great depression in the middle of the hill divides it into two parts. This ..read more
Indian History and Architecture
10M ago
Overview In the center of the Ghaggar-Hakra basin, Hisar district, Haryana, lies perhaps the most significant archaeological site of the subcontinent. Spread over an area of approximately 400 hectares (Shinde et al. 2012, 48), Rakhigarhi is the largest Harappan site that has ever been discovered, exceeding its size even Mohenjodaro (45).1 Rakhigarhi was subjected to ..read more