Category:Hira Gate, Dabhoi

**Hira Gate, Dabhoi**
	historic fort entrance in eastern Gujarat, India
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Instance of	gate;
Location	Dabhoi, Gujarat, Dabhoi Taluka, Vadodara district, Gujarat, India
Heritage designation	Monument of National Importance;
	22° 08′ 00.12″ N, 73° 25′ 35.86″ E
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The Hira Gate, also known as Hira Bhagol, is the eastern gate of the historic Dabhoi fort. It is elaborately carved with Hindu artwork including the Vedic samudra manthan legend, and it has a 12th- to 13th-century profusely-sculpted Kalika Mata temple next to it. It is larger, one partly restored and rebuilt in the 19th-century. This gate and the temple have several inscriptions that suggest the gate existed by the 12th-century and additions were made to it in the 13th-century.

Dabhoi is an ancient city. The literary and archaeological evidence suggests it was already a major town by the 6th-century CE. It became a capital about 10th-century, was fortified by the 11th-century. Inscriptions suggest that a more elaborate stone fort was already complete in the 12th-century and additions to the fort were made in the 13th-century. Dabhoi was invaded and plundered in the 14th-century by the Delhi Sultanate, then became a part of Gujarat Sultanate.

The Hira gate is named after the architect who built it. It is about 16 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Like the other Dabhoi Durg gates, pilasters line both sides of the gate. These pilasters narrow the passage space and support arches with intricate Indian artwork. Near the middle is a small room embedded on both sides of the gate. These rooms are about 60 square feet. The gate had a thick outer and inner door, but this is no longer present.

The Hira gate and the temple next to it are one of the most intricately and beautifully carved surviving fort gates that illustrate Hindu fort architecture in India. Cousens and Burgess, the British archaeologists, remarked in the 19th-century, its almost wood-carving like details and sophistication. The artwork depict secular themes, Hindu deities, as well as legends from the Vedas, the Hindu epics, and the Puranas of Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism.

This is a category about ASI monument number

N-GJ-197.

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