page_title: Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park / History
caption_attribution_description: Image taken from: Title: "Bombay and Western India. A series of stray papers" Author: DOUGLAS, James - of Bombay Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010056.h.10.", "British Library OC ORW.1986.a.2990" Volume: 01 Page: 355 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1893 Publisher: Sampson Low &amp; Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000973604 Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals. If you wish to purchase a high quality copy of the page that this image is drawn from, please order it here. Please note that you will need to enter details from the above list - such as the shelfmark, the page, the book's volume and so on - when filling out your order. Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page: 355) Download the PDF for this book Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Please click on the tags shown on the right-hand side for other ways to browse the illustrations.
context_page_description: Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in Panchmahal district in Gujarat, India. It is located around the historical city of Champaner, a city which was founded by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda Dynasty, in the 8th century. He named it after the name of his friend and general Champa, also known later as Champaraj. The heritage site is studded with forts with bastions starting from the hills of Pavagadh, and extending into the city of Champaner. The park's landscape includes archaeological, historic and living cultural heritage monuments such as chalcolithic sites, a hill fortress of an early Hindu capital, and remains of the 16th-century capital of the state of Gujarat. There are palaces, entrance gates and arches, mosques, tombs and temples, residential complexes, agricultural structures and water installations such as stepwells and tanks, dating from the 8th to the 14th centuries. The Kalika Mata Temple, located on top of the 800 metres high Pavagadh Hill, is an important Hindu shrine in the region, attracting large numbers of pilgrims throughout the year.
caption: Ruined tomb at Champaner, 1893
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