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BOPARDI
Bopardi (Wai T; 17° 55' N. 73° 50' E; RS. Wathar 22 m. SE; p. 1,664) is, a small village two miles north of Wai and connected with it. It contains a modern but well built little temple of Mahadev curiously placed in a stone tank, from which four steps lead upwards on to the surrounding court. The temple is nothing but a shrine with a porch, the whole measuring twenty feet long by eighteen feet wide. The porch is four feet by eighteen and consists of three small flat-roofed compartments supported on rectangular shafted pillars eighteen inches at the base with brackets at the head. The shrine is surmounted by a very elaborate stucco-decorated brick spire or shikhar. In front is a Nandi canopy also with a small spire. The ling is over a rich spring and there is a drain on the north side through which the water is allowed to flow. The temple, which though small is a very pleasing structure and was built by one Lakshman Dhonddev Phadnis, a dependant of the Raste family who flourished about two hundred years ago. The temple is in great local repute at Wai. The Devasthan is registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act. Bopardi, situated only at a distance of two miles from Wai, has two yearly fairs viz., in Kartik and in Magh in honour of God Bhima-Shankar. The fairs attract a large number of people from Wai.
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