Vaghel

Vaghel is a village in Sami Taluka of Patan district in Gujarat, India.

History

Vaghel, historically known as Vyaghrapalli, was the chief place in a grant of land made by Solanki king Kumarpal (1143- 1174) to his cousin Anak the grandfather of Virdhaval, who about 1243 founded the Vaghela dynasty (1243 - 1304).^[1]

It was under Palanpur Agency of Bombay Presidency,^[2] which in 1925 became the Banas Kantha Agency. After Independence of India in 1947, Bombay Presidency was reorganized in Bombay State. When Gujarat state was formed in 1960 from Bombay State, it fell under Gujarat.

Places of interest

There is a small temple with a single open entrance hall, mandap, one story high, with pyramid roof, three porticoes, and a spire-surmounted shrine. There are also some very curious monumental stones, paliyas, with spirited deep cut carvings on all four sides and with tops cut in the form of a temple spire. They have much in common with the more ambitions cupolas, chhatris, and seem to come between them and the ordinary memorial stones.^[1]

References

Notes

1. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha 2015, p. 350.
2. Chisholm 1911, p. 785.

Bibliography

• Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Government Central Press. 1880. p. 350.
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Santalpur". Encyclopædia Britannica. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Government Central Press. 1880. p. 350.

Coordinates: 23°38′15″N 71°54′52″E / 23.6373883°N 71.9143152°E