Puntamba

From Indpaedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Hindi English French German Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish

Puntamba, 1908

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.

Town in the Kopargaon taluka of Ahmadnagar Dis- trict, Bombay, situated in 19° 46' N. and 74° 37' E., on the Godavari, 12 miles south-east of Kopargaon town, and on the Dhond-Manmad Railway. Population (1901), 5,890, including a hamlet of 1,745. The traders are Marwaris and Brahmans. Puntamba has fourteen modern temples, and two flights of steps or ghats to the Godavari, one built by Ahalya Bai, the great temple-building princess of Indore (1767-95), and the other by one Shivram Dumal. The chief temple dates from the middle of the seventeenth century and belongs to Changdev, a famous saint said to have had 1,400 disciples.

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox