Majhgawan
Majhgawan
is one of the historical village of Seohra Tahaseel, District Jabalpur. This place needs exploration of
its history by historians/archaeologists/ASI.
The name of this place have some
story. According to the locals There were Majars in this place, so people were
addressing it Majar (wala)Gaon > Majhgaon. The question is what was its
original name. Few decades ago, a Neem tree fallen in high speed winds and the
numbers of broken idols were found buried in its roots. Those idols have been kept
by the villagers in a temple known as Chousasath Yogini Mandir (PictureNo. 1-3) in the campus of Kher Mai(BOOdhi Mai) Mandir (Picture No.-4).
The archaeologists must visit this place.
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About a distance of few yards there is a temple called Jatta (Juduan) Mandir as
this temple is famous for Surya Dev and Chandra Dev Mandir (Picture No.-5 -7). Both the statues
are of cream colour marble. However both the idols have been kept at one place and the Pojari is keeping the temple with his own style.
(Picture No.-5)
(PIcture NO.-6) (Picture No.-7)
The archeologist may examine its period.
The main market circle which is famous as Saheed Sthal
and a symbolic Vijay Stambh of six feet is there. The people were unable to tell us when it
was built. The businessmen have encroached the surroundings of the Stambh.
Jagdish
temple is just behind the Stambh. In this campus there is a beautiful temple of Shiva, appears of Kultury period as the
other idols of God and Goddess which are kept there, and the architecture of
the pillars spell it. (Picture No.-8 to 13)
(Picture No.-8)
Devat: candle stand
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In this temple a beautiful circular Baodi is in the
centre of the Garden of this temple. The other temples in his campus are not
much old and enhancement have been done time to time.
In the Basti (colony) of the village one
Bawdi is at the adjacent to the street which is almost have being covered by the
garbage (Picture No.-14-15) and the other is at a distance of few yards in a temple , the private
property of Gupta family (Picture No.-16-17).
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Another Bawdi is in the area of
Sirouli just one kilometer before Majhgawn on Seohra-Majhgawan road. This Bawdi
has lots of water and people are using it for irrigation of their agricultural
field through motor but they are not maintaining /cleaning the Bawdi. (Picture No.-18 & 19)
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(Picture No.-20 the temple in the campus of the Bawdi)
I do not
know whether these places are in the notice of the Department of Archaeology or not.
From Majhgawan we moved towards
Sailwara. In Sailwara Ashram (Picture No.-23), there is a very old banyan tree covering a huge
area , it appears that the family of banyan trees living together and
nourishing to each other. (Picture No.-21 &22)
(Picture NO.-21)
(Picture NO.-22)
From Sailwara, Gadha is about two
kilometers Picture No.-25 to 27.) Here, the river Hiran joins ( Sangam) the local river Sothi. (Picture No.24)
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From here about a kilometer muddy lane, ahead towards Bagrachi we reached near a cave the place of Siddh Sthan of Baba Avadhoot.
(Picture No.-27)
We came here late after sunset
about 7’o clock in the evening and it was not advisable to enter in the cave as
many bats were flying in the cave. People say that the cave is closed by a slab
of rock and there was a fort of Gond Dynesty above the hills. The locals have lots of respect for Rani Dugawati as goddess . We had to cover a distance about
32 Kilometers to reach Baghrachi through the narrow hilly road through dense
forest, so we could not devote much time here. It is worth to visit this place
to enjoy natural scenery.
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03.07.2014
