Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s2.1

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The sleepy little town of Akolā, with its steep narrow streets paved with cobbles, and old vādās or mansions now falling into decay, is built upon the bank of the Pravarā river some sixty miles to the north-west of Ahmadnagar. To the east of the town, a little distance above the bank of the river, is the old temple of Siddheśvara. It is said that the temple was buried in the silt of the river, until about 1780, when a kunbi's plough struck against the kalaśa of the spire. If it had been buried, it must have been under the gradual accumulation of earth washed down by the rains from the hillocks that overtop it on the south. Its basement is at present buried to a depth of about four feet on the side of the hillocks and some two feet on the opposite.