CHH. SHAHU IND. ESTATE - Jaysingpur

Best place to worship lord Ganesha ??? with clam Environment

In jaisinghpur ,Sangli ,it is midc area , Good infrastructure ,road transport is good .this area has small machinery plants ,n they make parts n other materials for OEM.

Number of small scale industries are there of wide range of variety. Right from fabrication to machining of auto components.

Good units under MSME scheme. Some.are export units.

Kopeshwar Temple near Kolhapur in Maharashtra is a masterpiece of Chalukyan temple architecture. It is yet to get the fame like Chola temples of Thanjavur or Chandela temples of Khajuraho. Maybe because it is a single temple in this region with a much smaller Jain temple in the vicinity. Maybe its time has just come now. First view of Kopeshwar Mahadev Temple at Khidrapur Kopeshwar Mahadev Temple in Khidrapur was my prime motivation for this trip to Kolhapur. So, early morning we drove down from Kolhapur to Khidrapur, some 70 Km away, to see this temple in all its glory. Kopeshwar Temple Khidrapur Nested between the relatively new houses, the stone door with a lovely doorjamb welcomed us. The first thing I noticed was the shining polish the stones carried. I would soon see many sculptures and pillars inside with even better, shining polish on them. It reminded me of the fine polish I saw at Barabar caves in Bihar. First rays of Sun falling on Swarga Mandapa as it is being cleaned in the morning I stepped in to see the temple shimmering in the morning rays of the sun. I hurriedly stepped into the Swarg Mandap – for this is the most unique architectural feature of this temple. And stood there awestruck by what I saw. No matter how many images or videos you see, there is nothing like standing on the large circular stone disc surrounded by 48 carved pillars with an opening to the sky. An elderly lady asked me to first go and meet the deity of the temple – Kopeshwar Mahadev. She is probably used to see the tourists get lost in the sculptures and forgetting to meet the deity. I stepped inside the Sabha Mandap through another lovely stone door with a stunning doorjamb. Another set of pillars surrounding another large circular stone welcomed me. I wondered what dance and music this stone would have seen over the ages. Madanika Sur Sundari When I could take my eyes off the circular pillars and the stories, they have on them, I saw the single Dwarpala on the right side of Antral Dwar or the door leading to the vestibule. The other space was empty waiting for the Dwarpala Murti to be fixed, or was it there but removed by the thieves? Antral is full of Madanika or Sur Sundari images, the beautiful women who are adorned with all kinds of jewelry and are considered Mangala or auspicious. Sculpted Walls The Garbhagriha or the sanctum has two Lingas and there is an interesting legend about it. There are Madanikas on the walls of sanctum as well. This is rare. The same lady pointed us to the meditation cave on the left and it felt like the perfect place to sit and meditate in complete darkness. It was time to go around the outside walls of the temple. I was lost in the sculptures of Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu & Devi punctuated by Madanikas in various poses. I did notice a lovely Krishna Murti. However, it was when our guide Shashank came and explained us the whole temple for more than an hour that each of these sculptures started talking to us, taking us back in time when a Kalyani Chalukyan king would have probably first built it. History of Kopeshwar Temple at Khidrapur There are different views on when this temple was exactly built. Sources point to it being first built in 7th CE, probably built by Badami Chalukyas. Other sources place it in 9th CE during the times of Kalyani Chalukyas. While yet other sources put it to 12th CE built by Shilahar Kings, who were earlier the vessels of Chalukyan kings. Kopeshwar Temple, Khidrapur My sense is that it is probably a 9th CE temple later enhanced by Shilahars. You do see a lot of incomplete elements in the temple. For example, the incomplete north and south Mukh mandapas, incomplete carvings on pillars with markings for carving. As they say, incomplete structures give you insights into the making of temples. The Shikhar of the temple is also out of sync with the rest of the structure. Temples anyway are on perpetual construction mode. The temple thankfully has 12 inscriptions, 11 of which are in old Kannada script while one is in Devnagari. However, none of these inscriptions

Structure of temple os best

Private industrial area near Jayasingpur. Mostly automobile parts manufacturers

Very clean green ,ecofriendly structures are manufactured here