Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c7.s2: Pārol
Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c7.s2
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Pārol
c7.s2.1
There are, in the Northern Koṅkaṇ, a few other mediæval remains which may be mentioned. At Pārol, a village at the base of the eastern slopes of Tuṅgār hill, and about twelve miles north-east of Bassein, are the remains of at least four old Hindu temples, at none of which worship is now carried on. The two called the temples of the big and little pools—the Mothā and Lahān Tānkyas—stand on the southern and northern banks of a stream which runs down the steep side of Tuṅgār. The Lahān Tānkya temple is about half a mile west of Pārol village; it is levelled to the ground and is now represented by a heap of carved stones. The Big Pool or Mothā Tānkya temple, about half a mile further up, is better preserved. It has an older look about it than the temple of Ambarnātha, and its comparatively plain walls contrast with the profusely decorated ones of that temple. There is very little of it left standing—just the back and portions of the side walls of the shrine. (See Plates XII and XIII.)
c7.s2.2
Of two in the limits of the village of Majavli, one, not more than a few hundred yards south-west of the village site of Pārol, seems to have been the largest of the group. Its superstructure has gone, and only the plinth and some of the steps remain.