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Pataleshwar Caves, Pune

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466: 406: 285: 418: 394: 382: 430: 145: 117: 276:(confluence) of the Mula and Mutha rivers – sites recommended for temples in historic Sanskrit texts on temple architecture. Surveys of this site done in the 19th-century refer to it as the "Panchaleshvara cave", "Bhamburde caves of Pune", "Pandoo caves", or "Panchaleshvara temple"; they mention it to be situated in a village north of Pune. However, as the Pune city has grown, this site is now a part of Shivajinagar (Pune), surrounded by urban structures. The Pataleshwar caves are about 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Mumbai. 31: 732: 257:. Dedicated to Shiva, it was a monumental monolithic excavation with a notable circular Nandi mandapa and a large pillared mandapa. It is a temple of three rock-cut cave sanctums, likely dedicated to Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu originally, but currently to Parvati-original Shiva-Ganesha. A garden now surrounds the site, new idols have been placed elsewhere in the complex. The interior of the caves have suffered damage from vandalism. Outside, the monument shows the effects of natural elements over the centuries. 442: 454: 152: 124: 300:. It features a circular shape Nandi mandapa, all cut out of the original rock to monolithically reveal the Nandi shrine and the Nandi. This mandapa had sixteen pillars, twelve along the circumference and four inside to support the roof of the Nandi mandapa. However, four of the eastern pillars and the roof above they supported is now lost. The 321:
site from its origins. The three sanctum caves total to about 39 feet long and 27.5 feet deep. The central shrine has a rock-cut Mahadeva Panchalesvara linga (original), while the cella on its side have space for statues. The original statues are lost, and were likely of Brahma on one side, Vishnu on
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The covered part of the Pataleshwar site is a large nearly square mandapa, a bit smaller in size than the open court with the Nandi mandapa. The facade consists of eight pillars and two pilasters. There are five rows of these pillars, with an eight feet aisle, while the cave walls have pilasters, all
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The complex of the cave is a part of a 19th-century community garden as reported in the earlier colonial era survey reports. This garden is now more elaborate. There are a few recovered architectural ruins stored in it. The Pune office of the Archaeological Survey of India is located in the adjacent
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The Pataleshwar caves are a monolithic excavation of a rocky hillock that gently swells and forms the terrain here. Its entrance is about a 20 feet long path from the east of the complex. It was originally an excavated tunnel but one that collapsed. It was, for a period, restored with a masonry. The
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carved out (circumambulation passage) around the three sanctums. A notable feature of the sanctums area of this complex is that it is at a lower level, cut deeper into the ground. It is this "underworld" symbolism that gives this site its name – Pataleshwar (many temples in India with deep-in-the
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A set of steps, flanked with two couchant stone tigers carved in-situ, provide entry into the covered mandapa. Between the third row and the fourth row of pillars, in the front of the sanctums, is another small Nandi hewn in-situ, thus re-affirming that this was a Hindu
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The caves have remains and traces of reliefs, most of which is now lost. Of what can be identified, include Saptamatrikas (Shaktism), Gajalakshmi, Tripurantaka, Anantasayin (Vaishnavism) and Lingodbhava.
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The 19th-century survey reports mention a damaged drainage system, which caused rain water to flood the caves for many months of the year. The ASI has attempted to correct this.
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found in Ambajogai, south-central Maharashtra are quite similar to the Pataleshwar caves. They are a bit younger though, and have a square Nandi mandapa.
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the other. Sometime before the mid-19th century, these were reclaimed with the addition of a Parvati statue and a Ganesha statue.
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path leads into an open court that is nearly a square (95 feet at its maximum in north–south, by 90 feet across east–west).
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The Pataleshwar Caves are in the northern side of Pune, on a rocky hill immediately west of the
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monolithically excavated from single rock. The sanctums open to the east, and have a
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Notes on the Cave of Panchalesvara in Mouje Bhamburde, Taluka Haveli, Zilla Puna
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The floor of this open mandapa was cut into the basaltic rock, part of the vast
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Pataleshwar Caves Internal Temple Corridors HDR Panorama Image.
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of India and managed by the Archaeological Survey of India.
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A passage with stone pillars inside the Pataleshwar temple
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Pataleshwar Caves Internal Temple Columns HDR Image.
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The complex includes a small side shrine for Durga.
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13th-century Hoysala temple with three sanctums
Affiliation
Hinduism
Pune District
Deity
Shiva
Maharashtra
India
Pataleshwar Caves, Pune is located in India
Pataleshwar Caves, Pune is located in Maharashtra
Geographic coordinates
18°31′37.2″N 73°50′59.2″E / 18.527000°N 73.849778°E / 18.527000; 73.849778
rock-cut
Rashtrakuta
Pune
Maharashtra
India
monument

Deccan Traps
Shaivism
Shivleni Caves
Pataleshwar caves pillars
Pataleshwar Caves Internal Temple Corridors HDR Panorama Image.
Exclusive close up of Nandi Bull
Pataleshwar Caves Internal Temple Columns HDR Image.
A passage with stone pillars inside the Pataleshwar temple
The Shiva Linga inside the temple
Circular Nandi Mandapa
Pataleshwar temple by Thomas Daniell in 1803. He called it "Pandoo's (Pandav's) cave.

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