Template:More citations needed Bhandaria is a village in Gujarat, western India.
History
Bhandaria was originally a princely state of the Kamaliya Ahirs.[1]
Village
Modern Bhandaria, in Bhavnagar Taluka of Bhavnagar district, is situated on Maleshri or Maleshvari river.
Places of interest
Bhandaria is known for its stone, a kind of laterite. A very fine bridge of this stone has been built across the Maleshvari river at Bhandaria itself, which is on the high road from Bhavnagar to Mahuva.[2]
The neighbouring hills, a branch of the Khokhara range, are called the Malnath hills, after a temple which lies in one of their gorges, and which is called the Malnath Mahadev. This temple has a fine kund or reservoir of water close to it. The names of the principal hills near Bhandaria are the Kalvira, the Rojmal, the Bhinmal, the Kan-phata, and the Kurma.[2]
References
External links and Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kathiawar{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay(1884)
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