Palasdeo Palasnath Temple, Maharashtra

Address

Palasdeo Palasnath Temple, Palasdev, Palasdo Maharashtra 413132

Diety

Palasnath (Shiva)

Introduction

Palasdo is 190 km from Pune on Pune-Solapur highway and most of the buses from Maharashtra and Karnataka stop at the Palasdeo. The temple is dedicated to lord Shiva as Palasnath, it Situated near Palasdeo village, this ancient structure, dated between the 9th and 11th century, was built by Chalukya Kings. Created in a Hemadpanthi style, the temple has beautiful stone carvings.

Puranic Significance

This temple was built by Chalukya Kings (Kalyani Chalukya whose Capital was in today’s Basavakalyan between 10 to 12th Century AD) and minimum 1000 years old. The temple is of Hemadpanthi style and shikhar is in saptabhumij style which is having an empty space a small dome in the shikhar. This is a very unique type of shikhar not seen usually in these areas temples. Also there is very beautiful stone crafting on temple pillars and makhar (entrance of Grbha graha) which matches with style of other temples in region. Later 17-18 centuries Raje Nimbalkar of Phaltan has reconstructed and expanded this temple. Today the temple is ruins, the Shiv linga is shifted from this temple and replaced in new temple and see old temple and many veergals with mud and dirt of bird’s nests and the crafting is getting waste away by water. Like in Pedgoan where Lakshmi-Narayan temple and Shiva temple is beside each other, here also some 10-15 mints distance in water there is one temple of Ram.