page_title: Dhar
section_title: Cenotaphs and Old City Palace
hierarchical_section_title: Dhar / Historic Places and Monuments / Cenotaphs and Old City Palace
caption_attribution_description: English: Goddess Ambika from Dhar in the British Museum
context_page_description: Dhar is a city located in the Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh state in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dhar District, and was the capital of the Dhar princely state as Dharanagar from 1732.
context_section_description: The old city palace of the Puar (Pawar) clan, a branch of the Marathas, is now used as a school. It is a modest building put up in the late 19th century around 1875. A marble statue of the Jain goddess Ambikā, found in 1875 on the site of the palace is now in the British Museum. Of the same period as the palace are a collection of domed cenotaphs of the Powar rulers on the edge of the large tank known as Muñj Talab. The name of the tank probably derives from Vākpati Muñja, the 10th century Paramāra king who first entered Mālwa and made Ujjain his main seat.
caption: Goddess Ambikā found on the site of the Old City Palace and now in the British Museum[15]
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