Date : 06/02/2014
Place: Viramgam
Attended person : Prof. Ashwin Aandani, Vipulbhai, Bhagirathsinh Chavda, Jagdishbhai Patel
Very Good Evening Friends,
Today's journey was joyful as well as painful. I visited Viramgam and Sanand with my friend Bhagirathsinh.
Morning at 8:40 I started my journey with my weapons - Camera and Car towards Sanand and called up Bhagirathsinh that I am coming in 20 minutes you be ready. He replied, "Done Miteshbhai, I will be waiting on Sanand road, just pick me up". We planned to visit Viramgam first and then Dholka and Bavla so I was driving little bit fast and playing old melody songs. We were discussing "Minority policy for Jain" and some other stuff. During this journey I came to know that on highway if Toll booth is there and you are from nearest village or town or city (exact range of kilometers is to be find out) than by showing your driving license you can avoid Toll Tax. Near about 9:45 we reached at Viramgam crossing. Bhagirathsinh told me that almost after 8 years he is visiting this city, I said for me it's first time. Finally I saw a huge water logged area (like a lake but it was not a lake) in beginning of Viramgam. Through one narrow way we reached to one gate of city and inquired about DCM college. That elder fellow guided us well by saying that you are on wrong way right now, so go back and take route parallel to this water reservoir and you will reach to DCM college. With local people's guidance we reached at DCM college. The ground was huge (massively) and there was one old school also in the same campus. To be frank, school building was more attractive than college due to it's old architectural construction. Finally we were in DCM college's office and met Prof. Ashwin Aandani - my friend.
Prof. Ashwin Aandani welcomed us warmly and I introduced Mr. Bhagirathsinh to him. They were in touch long back but now first time they met each other face to face. Prof. Ashwin took us to college premises and explained us different activities and achievements of college. Classes were old so size of class were quite big and old but nicely maintained benches were there. They have recently started a class for competitive studies and luckily one batch was studying so we interacted with them. I saw them my article in Latest Facts in General Studies also.
One of the main Shivalay between 108 Small Shivalay- No Shivling inside
Place: Viramgam
Attended person : Prof. Ashwin Aandani, Vipulbhai, Bhagirathsinh Chavda, Jagdishbhai Patel
Very Good Evening Friends,
Today's journey was joyful as well as painful. I visited Viramgam and Sanand with my friend Bhagirathsinh.
Morning at 8:40 I started my journey with my weapons - Camera and Car towards Sanand and called up Bhagirathsinh that I am coming in 20 minutes you be ready. He replied, "Done Miteshbhai, I will be waiting on Sanand road, just pick me up". We planned to visit Viramgam first and then Dholka and Bavla so I was driving little bit fast and playing old melody songs. We were discussing "Minority policy for Jain" and some other stuff. During this journey I came to know that on highway if Toll booth is there and you are from nearest village or town or city (exact range of kilometers is to be find out) than by showing your driving license you can avoid Toll Tax. Near about 9:45 we reached at Viramgam crossing. Bhagirathsinh told me that almost after 8 years he is visiting this city, I said for me it's first time. Finally I saw a huge water logged area (like a lake but it was not a lake) in beginning of Viramgam. Through one narrow way we reached to one gate of city and inquired about DCM college. That elder fellow guided us well by saying that you are on wrong way right now, so go back and take route parallel to this water reservoir and you will reach to DCM college. With local people's guidance we reached at DCM college. The ground was huge (massively) and there was one old school also in the same campus. To be frank, school building was more attractive than college due to it's old architectural construction. Finally we were in DCM college's office and met Prof. Ashwin Aandani - my friend.
Prof. Ashwin Aandani welcomed us warmly and I introduced Mr. Bhagirathsinh to him. They were in touch long back but now first time they met each other face to face. Prof. Ashwin took us to college premises and explained us different activities and achievements of college. Classes were old so size of class were quite big and old but nicely maintained benches were there. They have recently started a class for competitive studies and luckily one batch was studying so we interacted with them. I saw them my article in Latest Facts in General Studies also.
Mr. Bhagirathsinh, Prof. Ashwin and myself at DCM college - Viramgam
M.J. High School built in 1917 - Viramgam
We finished our work in Government office with help of some local contacts and planned to visit Moonsar Lake. This part of visit was really painful.
Historically Moonsar Lake was built by Minal Devi and there were 108 "Shivalay" on bank of Lake organized in circular fashion. Each Shivalay was having one "Bell made of Gold" and each of this bell was connected with common string so if you pull string from first Shivalay then all 108 bells were ringing. Yesterday I came to know about this information from one of my friend Mr. Narendar Rathod (his native place is Viramgam) so I was very much interested to visit this place. We went there and at first look we found that neither local people, local authorities, state authorities or Archaeological Survey of India is interested to take care of this beautiful piece of History-Shameful very shameful and very much painful. We visited almost 70 Shivalay with hope that at least one "Shivaling" we get there but what we found was .....
Broken Shivalay
No Shivling
People's place for nature's call
Liquor bottle
Pack of cards hidden in Gaumukh of Shivalay
Pepsi bottle
Deshi Liquor packs
Buffalo's dung
People's dung
and what not.
No Shivling in side Shivalay
Burnt material inside the Shivling
Traces of Shivling's existence
Comparatively clean place - Lucky one
Party in present of God
Close up
Lucky Liquor - Near to God's residence
Same photo - Front View
Still the other part of visit was amazing as I focused on beauty of these Shivalay. We took number of photographs from different angle and I was thinking how much hard work these might have done to prepare this beautiful place ? What a creation ? All unique and each different.
Beautiful design in roof of Shivalay on stone
Series of small Shivalay arrange in circular fashion - All damaged
You can see damage on top of Shivalay - Broken roof
Pack of cards hidden under God himself - Lake with Pack
Again beautiful - God's idol
See the beautiful sculpture
Idol in nice frame
Broken idol - Leg is replaced with G-8
You can see Gaumookh
Long shot of one of main Shivalay
Close up of Shivalay
On main frame see the beautiful sculpture
Lake with dirty
Hole - connecting each bell with each other
See hole to pass the string for bell
Broken history on ground
Fantastic work - Top of Temple
Incredibly good design of temple
Series of Small Shivalay
Ganesh Idol - Small but sensational
Hole to pass the string to connect the Golden bell of each Shivalay
Finally I reached Ahmedabad with lots of pain about this visit.
May Government help God - Amen
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