Sihoniya
| Sihoniya | |
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 Sihoniya
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| Coordinates: 26°35′00″N 78°17′00″E / 26.583333°N 78.283333°ECoordinates: 26°35′00″N 78°17′00″E / 26.583333°N 78.283333°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Madhya Pradesh |
| District | Morena |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 476554 |
Sihoniya is a town in Morena district, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The town is sometimes referred to as Suhania; in medieval times it was called Siṃhapānīya. The settlement has a long history and a number of notable monuments, one being of national importance and protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.
The history of Sihoniya goes back to at least the ninth century as shown by the remains of temple ruins and fragments dating to the time of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty. Subsequently it was one of the chief centres of the Kacchapaghātas. Epigraphic testimony for the presence of the Kacchapaghāta rulers comes from a record on the base of Jain image which is dated Vikrama year 1034/CE 977-78 and mentions Mahārājādhirāja Vajradāman (Kacchapaghāta). Sihoniya declined after the twelfth century, but it featured nonetheless in later poetic accounts of the Tomar rulers.
Sihoniya is located at 26°34'24"N 78°15'46"E.
Sihoniya is connected by bus service from Morena and Ambah.
The monuments of Sihoniya were first studied by M. B. Garde and published in the reports of the archaeological department of Gwalior State. The data in these reports were compiled into a list prepared in 1952.
The most important temple at Sihoniya is that dedicated to Śiva and known today as the Kakanmaṭh. It is under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India. The temple was built on a vast scale in the eleventh century and is one of the only surviving royal temples of the Kacchapaghāta dynasty. The Sās Bahū temple inscription at Gwalior records that the temple was built by Kīrtirāja, a Kacchapaghāta king who ruled between circa CE 1015-35:
The Kakanmaṭh appears to have been ruined by an earthquake in about the fourteenth century, losing the outer facing stones on the spire and the roof of the maṇḍapa. One of the pillars in the temple has an inscription dated Vikrama 1[4]50/CE 1393-94 recording the renovation of the Mahādev temple (i.e. Kakanmaṭh) by an individual named Durgāprasāda. The temple also has a number of votive records, for example one dated Vikrama year 1497/CE 1440-41 from the time of Ḍungar Dev Tomar that mentions Dekhaṇa, son of Kakala, who was a resident of Nalapuragaḍha (possibly modern Narwar).
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