KHAMBHAT CAVE

(Khambhat Taluka - IN)
22.300000,72.616700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 30/03/2016

An unspecified »Jain subterranean temple« (unidentified nature, unidentified character) is said to be situated at»Cambay (Cambaja) [note 1] … In 1780, there were two massy statues of their deities, one white and the other black. The inscription on the first intimated that it was the image of Parswanatha, a Jain deity, or rather deified saint, carved and consecrated in the reign of the Emperor Acber [Akbar], A.D. 1602. The black one had merely the date inscribed, with the names of the two Banyans who brought it there« (HAMILTON 1828, 1: 328).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 30/03/2016

NOTE 1: Khambat (also: Cambay, Kambay, Khambayat) N22°18': E072°37' (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003).

Documents

Bibliography 30/03/2016
  • Hamilton, Walter 1828.

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