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Multi-periodSite Name: Pataleshwar cave temple Alternative Name: Panchaleshvara, Bamburde
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 191.341 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Pune
Latitude: 18.526994N  Longitude: 73.849795E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Rock Cut Temple in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The Pataleshwar Cave Temple is a rock-cut cave temple, carved out in the 8th century in the Rashtrakuta period. It is located in what is now Pune, in the state of Maharashtra, India. It was originally situated outside the town, but the city limits have expanded so that it is now located on the downtown Jungli Maharaj Road.

The temple, made of basalt rock, is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. The sanctum - a cube-shaped room about 3-4 meters on each side - houses a linga - the symbol of Shiva and there are two smaller cells on each side. In front of the cave is a circular Nandi mandapa, its umbrella shaped canopy supported by massive square pillars. This mandapa is one of the peculiar structures of Pataleshwar.

The temple was left incomplete, possibly because of a fault line found at the back of the sanctum sanctorum, which made the further sculpting unsafe, or political upheaval resulting in loss of patronage. Still in use, the linga is anointed with ghee and yogurt. A brass temple bell hangs outside the basalt entryway.

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Pataleshwar cave temple
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Pataleshwar cave temple
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Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist

Pataleshwar cave temple
Pataleshwar cave temple submitted by motist  : Pataleshwar cave temple , pune, Maharashtra

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Re: Pataleshwar cave temple by Anonymous on Thursday, 11 March 2021
Some doubts need be cleared about this cave, when I visited caves, about month before, It gives appearance like graves on left, right sides, probable manuscripts literally destroyed, and it''s exactly hard to ignore, those are been destroyed, that don''t give appearance of incomplete structure, but it appears like masterpiece of art and no one is talking about it.
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