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'''Bahrot Caves''', locally known as '''Barad(बारड)''', near [[Dahanu]], [[Maharashtra]] are the only [[Parsi]]/[[Zoroastrian]] Cave temple in India. Bahrot Caves is located 25&nbsp;km south of [[Sanjan (Gujarat)|Sanjan]], Gujarat and are situated at a small distance of 8&nbsp;km away from the village of [[Bordi]] also nearly 9 km from [[National Highway 48 (India)|NH48]] from [[Talasari]] .They were unused Buddhist caves excavated by Buddhist monks. Zoroastrians hid for 13 years in these mountains after an invasion of their settlement at Sanjan by Alaf Khan, a general of [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]] in 1393 CE. The ‘Iranshah Flame’ was also moved to Bahrot during this period (1393–1405 CE). Even today, this Holy Fire is burning, now housed in a temple in Udvada, see [[Iranshah Atash Behram]] and it is given the most eminent grade of devoted fire in the world. Bahrot Caves have been declared a heritage site and is a protected monument under the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (ASI).<ref name="Desai2007">{{cite book|author=Anjali H. Desai|title=India Guide Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZRLGZNZEoEC&pg=PA129|year=2007|publisher=India Guide Publications|isbn=978-0-9789517-0-2|page=129}}</ref><ref name="SinghSingh2007">{{cite book|author1=Nagendra Kr Singh|author2=A. P. Mishra, Nagendra Kr Singh|title=Encyclopaedia of Oriental Philosophy and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-doi9GWBJgC&pg=PA78|year=2007|publisher=Global Vision Publishing House|isbn=978-81-8220-112-5|page=78}}</ref><ref name="Giara2002">{{cite book|author=Marzban Jamshedji Giara|title=Global Directory of Zoroastrian Fire Temples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5X4RAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Marzban J. Giara|pages=1, 200}}</ref><ref name="KamerkarDhunjisha2002">{{cite book|author1=Mani Kamerkar|author2=Soonu Dhunjisha|author3=K.R. Cama Oriental Institute|title=From the Iranian Plateau to the shores of Gujarat: the story of Parsi settlements and absorption in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQRuAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-81-7764-301-5|page=34}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of fire temples in India]]<br />
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