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YELAMB GHAT
Yelamb Ghat, with a population of 5,562 in 1961, is a village
in Bid tahsil with a temple of Mahadev and a dargah of
local importance. It has a post office, a middle school and a
medical practitioner. Weekly bazar is held on Fridays.
Objects
Mahadev Temple; The Mahadev temple is to the north-east of
the village, a little beyond the inhabited locality, in the midst
of an open held. The temple is built in Hemadpanti style
and is a work in masonry. A small piazza-like porch with two
pillars on either side forms the entrance. There are beautiful
artistic designs carved upon it. This part of the temple is in bad
repair. The hall or the mandap of the temple is 4.58x6.10
metres (15'x20'), the roof of which is supported by two rows of
pillars bearing engraved human and divine figures. Each row is
having four pillars. A narrow passage about 1½ yards in
length leads into the inner shrine. This entrance is very low and
is flanked by small pillars. At the entrance, on either side in
the wall of the mandap, there are two niches in one of
which there is an image of a cobra engraved on a stone while in
the other that of a goddess. There are similar niches in the
passage walls also, containing images of various deities. On the
portal frame of this passage are carved in relief the figures of
Sankar and his consort Parvati and many other deities. The shrine
in which the ling is placed is cell-like and is reached by
descending a few steps. It is 0.929 sq. metres (10 ft. square).
Outside the temple near the main entrance there is a disfigured
image of nandi. Near it on a stone slab is a figure
depicted as riding a horse. The temple was said to have been built
during the period of the Yadavas and it true, could be of
considerable antiquity. In Sravan, on every Monday, people
visit the temple to make their obeisance.
Khudabaks dargah: The dargah lying to the west of
the village. is not far from the grampancayat office. While
the actual dargah faces south its main entrance is to the
east through a massive gateway of super-imposed arches about 3.66
metres (12 ft.) in height and 1.52 metres (five ft.) in breadth.
Above it was the nagarkhand, which is now in ruins. The
mounds of earth and heaps or stones around the dargah
indicate the existence of a masonry compound wall. A hall
admeasuring 4.58x2.43 metres (15' x 8') holds the tomb of
Khudabaks in its centre. The actual kabar has again a
canopy over it. It is in bad repair and is crowned with a dome
decorated with a crescent symbol and four minars.
At the end of the courtyard there is a minar near which is a huge
old tree, its circumference being 9.14 metres (30 ft.). Its leaves
and bark are used for medicinal purposes. The trunk is hollow
inside and has cavities big enough to allow a person to enter
inside. In December every year a urus is held when a large
number of persons gather to pay their homage to Khudabaks. Near
the tree there is a square well, its waters being utilised for
irrigating agricultural land. By the side of the dargah at
a few yards' distance is a shrine of Maruti, lying amidst ruins.
The idol of Maruti is without a shelter.
Facing the dargah is the entrance gate to the village.
Formerly there must have been defence walls around but they seem
to have crumbled with the passage of time. Only the walls close to
the gate on both the sides are standing. The nagarkhana
above the gate, has been repaired by the grampancayat and
turned into a library.
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