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Marol, Baroque Architecture, Maharashtra

The mosque is currently located near Gurgaon railway station in a locality 'Sarai Ali Vardi Khan'. It was apparently part of a sarai 'Ali Vardi Khan' that doesn't survive now. The sarai and mosque was built by Nawab Ali Vardi Khan in the reign of Mohammad Shah II, the Mughal king of Delhi. It is a three bay mosque made of red sandstone and brick. The mosque had two minarets, only one out of the two survive now. The mosque is being used for worship in current times.

Mata Bhavani vav, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Digitization of this collection has been possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 

The Matsyapurisvara temple at Koyil Tevarayan Pettai received endowments continuously from the seventeenth year of Aditya I i.e. 888 CE to the thirty-eighth year of Parantaka I i.e. 945 CE. The present fabric may date to the ninth year of Uttama Chola i.e. 980 CE when Sembiyan Mahadevi made a large grant. Moreover, even the divinity niche sculptures (devakoshthas) seem later than the period of Parantaka. References: M.W. Meister and M.A. Dhaky 1963, pp.183 - 184.

Mauryan Monuments in Bihar