{"id":3220,"date":"2016-04-22T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T04:30:06","slug":"garhi-padawali-temple-morena-gwalior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/garhi-padawali-temple-morena-gwalior\/","title":{"rendered":"Garhi Padawali Temple , Morena ,Gwalior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garhi Padavali temple<\/strong>\u00a0Morena, Gwalior built in 10th \u00a0AD it is \u00a0in a village called Padhavali<\/strong> \u00a0situated in Distt. Morena 45 km. from Gwalior<\/strong> , old name of Padhavali<\/strong> is Dharon<\/strong> with neighboring towns were Kutwar ( Kantipur )<\/strong> and Suhaniaya ( Simphania)<\/strong> originally they collectively formed one large city.\u00a0The Kutwar<\/strong> \u00a0is associated with Kunti<\/strong>, the mother of the\u00a0Pandavas<\/strong>
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Garhi Padhvali Temple Entrance<\/p><\/div>
\nIn the early 19th century, the Rana ( Jat ruler ), of Dholpur, converted a ruined temple atop a mound, into a small fort or Garhi.<\/strong> He used stones, said to be the remains of the old town of Dharon<\/strong>, to construct defensive towers for his fort,\u00a0A flight of stone steps, guarded by two stone lions, lead up to the ruins of the temple within the walls of the Garhi.<\/strong>
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Garhi Padhavali Temple , Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
\nThe remains of the old structure stand atop a carved plinth rise sixteen sculpted pillars supporting a flat roof<\/strong>. The terrace, the courtyard and the assembly hall of this temple are the ‘epitome’ of ancient culture .\u00a0There are intricately carved panels on the stone beams between the pillars. They depict the divinities Surya, Kali, Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma<\/strong>,
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Plate depicting Lord Ram & Sita wedding , Garhi Padhavali temple Gwalior<\/p><\/div>
\nThe temple abounds in the depictions of Ram Leela, Krishna Leela, Mahabharat, the 10 incarnations of God Vishnu, Samudra Manthan, Marriage of Lord Ganesha, Lord Shiva dancing in the cremation ground in Preta ( Ghost) form<\/strong> and hundreds of other Sanatan gods and goddesses .
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Lord Brhama , Shiva and Vishnu in old age and at bottom plate depicting celebration at Nand Gaon the birth of Lord Krishna<\/p><\/div>
\nLord\u00a0Shiva flanked by four-headed Brahma and Vishnu<\/strong> holding a conch, a Chakra, a Gada (club)<\/strong> and a Padma (lotus)<\/strong> in his four hands \u00a0and Vishnu seated on Garuda<\/strong>
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Lord Shiva with Ma Parvati and Nandi , bottom plate depicting war scene of Mahabharata killing of Abhimanyu .<\/p><\/div>
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Ma Chamunda and bottom plate depicting Lord Ram and his army of Vanaras performing Shivalingam puja before the war with Ravana<\/p><\/div>
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Garhi Padavali temple\u00a0Morena, Gwalior built in 10th \u00a0AD it is \u00a0in a village called Padhavali \u00a0situated in Distt. Morena 45 km. from Gwalior , old name of Padhavali is Dharon with neighboring towns were Kutwar ( Kantipur ) and Suhaniaya ( Simphania) originally they collectively formed one large city.\u00a0The Kutwar \u00a0is associated with Kunti, the … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,12,13,16,25,1],"tags":[376,459,658,791,804,823,827,956,1246,1279,1444,1451,1465,1709,1785,1867,1873,2083,2106,2188,2256,2259,2434,2437,2561,2607,2749,2769,3044,3047],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-history","category-humanity","category-monuments","category-trekking","category-uncategorized","tag-brahma","tag-chakra","tag-dharon","tag-four-headed-brahma","tag-gada","tag-garhi-padhwali","tag-garuda","tag-gwalior","tag-kali","tag-kantipur","tag-krishna-leela","tag-kunti","tag-kutwar","tag-mahabharata","tag-marriage-of-lord-ganesha","tag-morena","tag-mother-of-pandavas","tag-padma","tag-pandava","tag-preta","tag-ramleela","tag-rana-of-dholpur","tag-samundra-manthan","tag-sanatan-gods-and-godesses","tag-shiva","tag-simphania","tag-suhaniaya","tag-surya","tag-vishnu","tag-vishnu-seated-on-garuda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}