page_title: Parnera Hill
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Parnera Hill / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hidden Passage from where Shivaji jumped away with his horse from the fort.
context_page_description: Parnera Hill is situated in Parnera town of Valsad district. It is located around 4 miles away from Valsad city and 200 miles away from Mumbai. Height of hill from ground is around 500 ft. It has two entries one from Atul and one from Parnera.
context_section_description: As per known information, a Hindu king had made a fort on the hill. Upon inspection of the Fort's relics and structure use of skillful engineering methods of that time may be seen. The fort was under Dharampur state (called Ram Nagar state at that time) during the 15th century. Sultan Muhammad Shah Begda won this fort at the end of 15th century. In 16th century, portuguese of Daman seized and destroyed this fort in 1558 and 1568. After that, Chatrapati Shivaji maharaj raid on Surat in 1664 and 1670. That time, while moving back they had passed through the fort of Parnera Hill. That time, a huge war was happened here. Based on folktale, Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj jumped away from a big hidden passage of the fort with his horse during this war.
  In 1696, Commander of Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj, Shree Moro Pandit took possession of fort and built military base. That time was era of Peshwa. But, Golden era of Peshwa completed slowly. In 1780, Fort come under the hand of Gayakwad government of Vadodara, then Peshwa Balaji Bajirao 3rd attacked on the fort. This fight ran up to 7 days. One poet has mentioned this fight's description in "Parnera ni lol" garba. In 1780, British Govt. took possession of fort under the leadership of Lt. Wales and put military for handling harassment of Pindharas. At the beginning of the 19th century, military was moved away from there. During 1857's rebellion, fort was demolished. Some relics of it still exists on Parnera Hill.
  There are three stepwells on Parnera Hill. Army, Commander used water of it during that time.
  There are still three cannon in broken fort. There were around 150 cannons in fort during Indian independence. Some of them are now in Valsad R.P.F. Ground.
caption: Hidden Passage from where Shivaji jumped away with his horse from the fort.
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