Posted on: 2 August 2012

Inscription slab in the Ali Bhavani Temple, Patan (Patna), Khandesh District - 1880

Photograph of an inscription slab in the Ali Bhavani Temple, at Patna, Khandesh District, taken by Henry Cousens around 1880, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This temple is mentioned by Henry Cousens in "Revised List of Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Presidency", vol.VIII, 1987. He records the inscription as: "the grant of land and money by Sonhadadeva to the college established for the study of the Siddhantasiromani and other works of the astronomer Bhaskkaracharya". The inscription is part of the wall on the outside of the courtyard which was built partly from old temple materials. Therefore it is probably from an earlier structure.

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cant read it close up

Sita Shahane: Here is the link for the splendid zoomify image. Courtesy of British Library: http://bit.ly/N0NZVL

It was in ruins at the time the photograph was taken. On a further google search found Cousens mentioning "At the upper end of the glen, on the east side of the stream, is the insignificant temple of Ali Bhavani. Very little of the original building now remains intact, most of what is seen being rebuilt from the material of an older temple. From what little does remain, the temple would appear to have been a cluster of small shrines, with one or two small halls...In the outside of the courtyard wall, built into the wall, is a much-abraded inscription slab, partly of old temple materials the inscription may not be, and probably is not, in situ..."