There are lovely monuments in the
surroundings of Jabalpur and most of them are neglected (including Madanmahel-
the symbol of Gondwana Empire).
A beautiful BAWADI is in Maharajpur,
Panagar Tahaseel, Jabalpur. The architecture and the material used in its
construction appears of around 13th century ( an archeologist may
tell better)but local people are using it
as a dustbin and encroaching like
East India company. Unfortunately, neither the Civil Administration and nor the
Archeological Departments (MP State as well as ASI) are paying their attention
towards it. There may be unsaid reasons i.e. lack of manpower to look after,
negligence of staff, lack of funds or misuse of funds and we cannot ignore
corruption as it has infiltrated from top to bottom nowadays in our system.
Just four kilometers from this place
in the heart of Panagar, there is a beautiful BAWDI which appears of early
eighteenth century, where a newly constructed temple has been made. But they
are not taking care of
the BAWDI while they have made temple in its premises
and people have used its one of the wall for building house by someone. When I
was doing photography one local person and the Pujari called me to take
ARTI & PRASAD. However their objective was to inquire from me about
the reason of taking photographs. I said it is my hobby.
Vijay Nath Sondhi
Retired from ICSSR
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