Mandore
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| State : | Rajasthan | ||
| District : | Jodhpur | ||
| Location : | 26 ° 21 ′ N , 73 ° 2 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 245 m | ||
| Residents : | 3,000 | ||
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Mandore ( Hindi मंडोर Mandor ) was the old capital of the Pratihara empire, which perished in the course of the Islamic conquests undertaken by Mahmud of Ghazni (r. 997-1030) in northern India . Today Mandore is a larger village with about 3,000 inhabitants.
location
Mandore is only about 10 km north of Jodhpur at an altitude of about 245 m above sea level. d. M. and is best reached by buses from Jodhpur. There is also a train station.
history
After the collapse of the Pratihara empire, the Rajput clan of the Rathore took power over the area in the 13th century , which had achieved great economic importance as a station on the old caravan route from Delhi to Sindh . He founded the principality of Marwar in the 13th century , but Rao Jodha moved its capital from Mandore to Jodhpur around 1459. In the centuries that followed, however, many rulers of the dynasty were cremated at Mandore after their death; An octagonal memorial building ( chhatri ) was then regularly built at the site of the cremation , which in some cases has a Bengali roof . Some chhatris also resemble Hindu temples .
Attractions
The most important sights of Mandore mostly date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are located in a garden strewn with temples and chhatris. The so-called "Shrine of the 330 million gods" (or also called "Hall of Heroes") is located along a rock wall with numerous painted gods and heroes made of terracotta . Here the extremely rich spectrum of Indian mythology is reflected in a very small space.
literature
- Melia Belli Bose: Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art. Brill 2015, pp. 138ff, ISBN 978-90-04-30054-5 .
