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PLACES OF INTEREST
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ADAVAD
Adavad.—(Chopda taluka; 21°10' N, 75°25' E, p. 6,743), twelve
miles east of Chopda and 24 miles north-west of Jalgaon railway
station, was once a place of some consequence and the headquarters
of a sub-division. Among its objects of interest are a fine old stone and mortar step well, thirty feet by twelve, in a ruined enclosure known as the Red Garden, Lal Bag, and built by a certain Samdas Gujarati. It is now not in good condition. To the north of the town is a mosque, twenty feet by twelve, of stone and mortar below and brick and mortar above, built, according to Persian writing on one of the steps, in 1678 A. D. (1089 H). Three miles to the north-west are the celebrated Unabdev hot springs. There is a temple of Murlidhar built 200 years ago still in good condition.
Unabdev under the Satpuda hills, is remarkable for a hot spring, whose waters, issuing from a seemingly solid block of masonry forming the lower part of a Hindu temple, flown through a stone conduit fashioned like a cow's head, and are collected in a twenty-five feet square pond surrounded by a strong red-brick wall
[Details of the spring are given on page II]. Within the enclosure, close to the edge of the pond, is a rest-house and two small Hindu shrines, and outside the enclosure the water is collected in a cattle trough built out of local funds in 1876.
The surrounding walls which were in dilapidated condition have been rebuilt in 1932-33 by one Shri Govinda Maharaj of Padmalaya.
The two small temples, one of "Mahadev" and the other of "Krshna-Balaram", have been built on the western side of the reservoir.
One dharmashala was built in 1943. A fair is held every year at this place during the month of Pausha.
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