Chhatrapati sambhaji maharaj samadhi vadu

Vadhu Budruk is a village in

Shirur tehsil Shirur taluka, is a taluka in Haveli subdivision of Pune district of state of Maharashtra in India. The town is situated on the bank of river Ghod and hence it was also known as Ghodnadi in 20th Century. The town is on the border of Pune & Ahm ...

of Pune district. The importance of this place is, successor of Maratha Empire chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj I, son of chatrapti Shivaji Maharaj I, brutally executed and killed by Aurangzeb (Mughal king) in

Tulapur Tulapur is a village in Pune district, Maharashtra, India, associated with the last execution of Sambhaji, second Chatrapati and son of Shivaji. Etymology Tulapur village was originally known as Nagargaon. It was renamed Tulapur when Shahaji ...

and his

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was built in Vadhu. Thus, both these places are historically very important. Tulapur is situated on the banks of three rivers-

Bhima Bhima (, ), also known as Bhimasena (, ), is a hero and one of the most prominent characters in the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. As the second of the five Pandava brothers, Bhima was born to Kunti—the wife of King Pandu—fathered by Vayu, the ...

, Bhama and

Indrayani Indrayani is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Shankharapur Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,635 and had 46 ...

. Tulapur was originally known as Nagargaon. Vadhu is near Tulapur where Sambhaji and Kavi Kalash last rites were performed by Shivale Deshmukh. An idol of Sambhaji was put up in 1977 in Vadhu along with Gaikwad's tomb.

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