pandupol Mandir – Rana Safvi

A trip to Sariska in 2016: a dargah and a mandir

ranasafvi — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 03:40:48 +0000

Dargah Hazrat Kapoor Shah Baba near Ajaigarh

Morning I visited a Dargah near Ajaigarh enroute to Sariska .
In the evening I went to a Hanuman temple inside Sariska forest.

Pandupol Hanuman ji Mandir in Sariska

The Mujavir and Panditji both called me and tied a Kalava on my wrist.

I find no difference between both.
Can you?
(And best part is neither asked my name or where I came from)

Some photos of the dargah and temple

Inside the dargah

The small dargah

The Pandupol temple

Jhoolta Minar or Shaking Minarets of Ahmedabad

ranasafvi — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:01:39 +0000

After a false start at the Einta Minarets which are also on one end of the Ahmedabad railway station we again set off on our search. This time we reached the right place.

Sidi Bashir Mosque had been built by a slave of the Gujarat Sultans &he’s buried in a tomb next to it. It bears the name Malik Sarang, who was a noble in the court of Mahmud Begarha.Whether the two were the same or whether Sarang built the Mosque isn’t clear tome just now. Need to research it to get the right answer.

Our taxi drivers had kept trying to put us off by saying no one is allowedto enter it.

But I was determined. It was in a small Mosque compound and it was quitewelcoming. It turned out Noone is allowed to climb up the minar or shake it.But you can enter the Mosque.

The Mosque to which the darwaza with the Minar were attached was broken infighting between Maratha’s and the Gujarat Khans.

A British Library photo shows the two standing forlornly with the connecting door.

At some point not many years ago a Mosque has been built by the locals andis being used by them.

They were called jhoolta or Shaking minarets because if one applied pressureto either one of the other would shake hence the name. Yet the passing trains don’t shake them for some reason. Now it’s not allowed.

One can’t climb up but you can admire it!

There is one more Mosque in Ahmedabad called Raj Bibi ki masjid which also has shaking minarets.

Be very specific when you want to visit it which one you want to go to

Einta minarets of Ahmedabad

Rana Safvi — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:57:13 +0000

The jhoolta minor or shaking minarets was one of the first monuments I had read about in Ahmedabad. However, due to it being next to the railway station and so in a highly congested area we thought we’d see it just before boarding the train.

As we came near the station we saw two sets of minarets peeping out on either end of the station. Since the second one was easier to access we went there hoping this was it!

The Einta minor on the left of the Ahmedabad station adjacent to the platform

The area where the minarets are locate dis very small and congested and so I had a tough time photographing it.

These niches are now empty but they must at one point have had some floral or geometric decorations along the lines of the Tree of Life pattern

The Einta Minarets are the tallest at about 100 feet and though it isn’t the jhoolta minor which is on the other side of the station this one is worth visiting.