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Visawada (Mul Dwarka)

The small town of Visawada lies about 40 km west of Porbandar and about 20 km east of Miyani. There is a group of temples in the village, the site being known as Mul Dwarka. Most of the temples are dedicated to Shiva. The principal two temples face each other. The temple facing west is at present popularly known as the temple of Dwarkadhish, evidently on account of the image of Ranchhodji installed in it. But the temple was originally dedicated to Nilakantha Mahadev whose linga is enshrined in the niche in the back wall is obviously a later addition inserted in place of the usual image of Paravati the consort of Siva.

The other temple, facing east is dedicated to Siddhesvara Mahadeva. Around these two main temples there were twelve small shrines, out of which ten are extant and the rest two having perished. At present the Nilakantha temple has four small shrines in all four corners, two on the back facing west and two in the front facing south and north respectively. The Siddhesvara temple is surrounded by six small shrines, a pair of them lying in each corner at the back and facing east and the two other lying at the two corners in front and facing west.

A creek (known as Kindari Creek) runs to a long distance at least up to Kindar Kheda and perhaps Kindari name derived from this particular ancient town. The western side of coast is represented by a high cliff while the eastern coast is consisted of sandy beach.

The explorations have been undertaken off Kindari Creek about 500 m from coastline. The seabed topography is consisted of sandy channels and rocky outcrops. At several places small boulders and dense growth of vegetation was observed. The water depth varies between 8 to 5 m, however, archaeological findings were concentrated between 5-6 m water depths. Fourteen stone anchors have been found and they represent by three varieties known as composite, Indo-Arabia and ring stone types.








 

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