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SAKEGAON
Sakegaon (Chikhli T., p. 665): This is a village in Chikhli tahsil situated 14 miles to the south of Buldhana. the district headquarters and 6 miles to the west of Chikhli the tahsil headquarters.
' It has an old temple of Mahadeva of much the same style of work as the temple at Satgaon. It faces the east, and consists of a shrine, an ante-chamber and a mandapa, with a porch in front of the entrance door-way which is on the east. It was surrounded by a heavily-built wall enclosing a courtyard and having its entrance upon the north side. To the south of the main building is a small subsidiary temple facing the north, against which the surrounding wall abuts upon either side, i.e., the temple stands athwart the wall and cuts through it. It is, therefore, eviden that the wall was built after the shrine, and perhaps long after the big temple. The masonry of the walls and the pillars of the courtyard gateway are of the same style and age as those of the temple at Mehkar, and therefore, later than the temple itself. The walls of the mandapa and the shrine are quite free of images, save for those in two of the three niches round the shrine, and decorated with the usual basement mouldings and bands of geometric ornament. The back-wall of the shrine, or rather its outer casing, has fallen, carrying with it a great part of the spire upon the site. The back niche has gone with it. In the niche on the south side is a figure of the Tandava dance of Shiva, and in the niche on the north side is that of Mahakali. The front of the tower is decorated with the trifoliated chaitya arch; under it are the images of the dancing Shiva and Parvati, while on the sides of the same are those of Bhairava, Mahishasura-mardini, and Gana-pati. Within the shrine is the linga. In the small temple, on the south side of the main building against the back wall, is a seat for an image; but it is now vacant, and it is not known to whom the shrine was dedicated. These Hemad-panti temples are under Government conservation ' [Buldhana district Gazetteer, 1910, pp. 460—61].
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