Manjal
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Manjal મંજલ |
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 Manjal
Manjal
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| Coordinates: 23°14′N 69°24′E / 23.23°N 69.40°ECoordinates: 23°14′N 69°24′E / 23.23°N 69.40°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Gujarat |
| District | Kutch |
| Taluka | Nakhatrana |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Gujarati, Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 370610 |
| Telephone code | 02835 |
| Vehicle registration | GJ-12 |
| Nearest city | Bhuj |
| Climate | Dry (Köppen) |
| Website | gujaratindia |
Manjal is a village in Nakhatrana Taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat, India. Nearby ruins of fort and temples of Paddhargadh is historical place associated with legendary Jakh Botera.
About two miles to the north-west of the village, in a low country surrounded by hills and overgrown with bushes, the ruins of Paddhargadh, Punvaranogadh or Patan, are there which has traces of once been a large well-peopled city. In 1830, a great number of Indo-Sassanian coins were found buried in a copper vessel.
The walls, 2385 yards round, are easily traced, though all the masonry; except one narrow gateway on the west, has gone to decay. Within the walls are the ruins of two palaces, a mint, and a temple of Shiva, all of stone without any trace of wood. In style they closely resemble the ruins at Kera, Kutch. Punvar is also associated with Lakho Phulani.
Punvaranogadh was built around 878 by Punvar, son of Ghaa or Ghav, the chief of Kera, Kutch and possibly a nephew of Lakho Phulani. Quarreling with his family, Punvar, whose chief characteristic seems to have been cruelty, resolved to found a city and call it after his own name. When the city was finished, the architect was rewarded by having both his hands chopped off that he might not do work like it for any one else. The legendary Jakh Botera, literally seventy-two Yaksha, freed people from oppression of Punvar. Later they were revered by people and temples are erected in their dedication. A fair dedicated to them is organised on the second Monday of Bhadrapad (September-October) every year on the foothills. This fair lasting two to three days is attended by thousands of pilgrims.
The large palace, Vadi Medi, upper storied and surrounding an open quadrangle; about fifty -five feet square and twenty high, tastefully built of very large blocks of stone, stands on the north side of the city. The front porch and colonnade are ornamented with carving. The upper story and the very heavy stone terraced roof are each supported by eighty -four pillars, each pillar one block of stone, round, and with capitals carved into figures of men and animals. The small, or half-day palace, Nani Medi or addho taro, for it was only twelve hours building, one storied, of stone, and with rather poor carving, is forty feet long by thirty-three broad. There are two rooms in the back with two verandahs The roof is a flat terrace of massive stone slabs, joined with dove-tails of iron and plastered with cement 1 1⁄2 inches thick. It seems to have stood in a garden watered by a well now filled with earth and stones and overgrown with trees.
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