Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them v2.c19.s2.4

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The Note from the Government of Gujarat gives no information about the historical or religious importance of Sidhpur. The Report of the Minorities Commission says that Sidhpur is a historical town and that it was ruled successively by Hindu Rajas and Muslim Sultans.¹ There is no reference to the religious importance of Sidhpur as a place of Hindu pilgrimage. The article by B.L. Nagarch brings out that point when it says that as the obsequial offerings to the paternal ancestors must be made at Gaya, so corresponding offerings to the maternal ancestors have to be performed at Sidhpur. Nagarch tells us also that the ancient name of Sidhpur appears to have been sristhala or sristhalaka and that the name of Sidhapur was given to this place in honour of Siddharaja JayasiMha who completed the Temple of Rudra-Mahadeva in the twelfth century here.²