Vaghel is a village in Harij Taluka of

Patan district Patan district is one of the 34 districts of Gujarat state in western India. Its main city is Patan. This district is located in northern Gujarat and bounded by Vav-Tharad district in the north, Banaskantha district in the northeast, Mehsana dis ...

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

, India.

History

Vaghel, historically known as Vyaghrapalli, was the chief place in a grant of land made by

Chaulukya The Chaulukya dynasty (), also Solanki dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled parts of what are now Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India, between and . Their capital was located at Anahilavada (modern Patan). At times, their rule extended ...

king Kumarapala (1143- 1174) to his cousin Anak the grandfather of Virdhaval, who about 1243 founded the

Vaghela dynasty The Vaghela dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Gujarat in India in the 13th century CE, with their capital at Dholka. They were the last Hindu dynasty to rule Gujarat before the Muslim conquest of the region. Early members of the Vaghela fami ...

(1243 - 1304). It was under

Palanpur Agency Palanpur Agency, also spelled Pahlunpore Agency, was a political agency or collection of princely states in British India, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. In 1933, the native states of the Mahi Kantha Agency, except for Danta ...

of Bombay Presidency, which in 1925 became the

Banas Kantha Agency Palanpur Agency, also spelled Pahlunpore Agency, was a political agency or collection of princely states in British India, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. In 1933, the native states of the Mahi Kantha Agency, except for Danta ...

. After

Independence of India The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic ...

in 1947, Bombay Presidency was reorganized in

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created in 1950 from the erstwhile Bombay Province, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Province (in British India roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Mah ...

. When

state was formed in 1960 from Bombay State, it fell under Gujarat. Vaghel historically Lake - Historica
Bhutaval Lake 1100 Years Old
Historica
Bandiyu Lake - Vaghel, Harij

Places of interest

There is a small temple with a single open entrance hall, ''mandap'', one story high, with pyramid roof, three porticoes, and a spire-surmounted shrine. There are also some very curious monumental stones, '' paliya''s, with spirited deep cut carvings on all four sides and with tops cut in the form of a temple spire. They have much in common with the more ambitions cupolas, ''chhatri''s, and seem to come between them and the ordinary memorial stones.

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