Jogeshvari

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Jogeshvari

Cave in the Salsette taluka of Thana District, Bombay, situated in 19 degree 13' N. and 72 degree 59’ E., ½ miles south-east of- Goregaon station, on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Rail- way. It is the third largest of the great Brahmanical caves of India, the others being Site's Bath at Ellora and the Great Cave at.Elephanta. Its length is 240 and breadth 200 feet. This cave-temple, which dates from the seventh century, contains rock-cut passages, an immense central hall supported by pillars, porticoes, and subsidiary courts.

[Du Perron (1760), Zend Avcsta, vol. i, pp. ccclxxxviii-cccxc ; Hunter (1784), Archaeologia, vol. vii, pp. 295-9; Salt (1806), Transactions of the Bombay Literary Society, vol. i, pp. 44-7 ; Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xiv, pp. 1 10-2.]