Kol Caves

Kol Caves of Maharashtra state, About a mile south-east of Mahad in a hill behind the village of Kol are two small groups of caves still in good condition. The first group, to the north-east of the village, consists of, a few ruined cells; the second group, to the south-east contains one cell larger than any of the others. All are apparently unfinished. In the second group are three short inscriptions now worn out of about the first century after Christ. They have been translated:

‘(1) A cave, the religious gift of Seth Sangharakhita, son of Gahapati;’ (2) ‘A cave, the meritorious gift of Dhamasiri (Sk. DharmaSri), daughter of the lay worshipper Khara (u?) d, and wife of Sivadata (Sk. Sivadatta);’ (3) ‘A cave, the meritorious gift of Sivadata (Sk. Sivadatta), an inhabitant of Aghaakasa village’.

The inscriptions have blurred out and cannot be easily read now.

There is a third group of a few cells and cisterns in a hill to the north-east of Mahad, and there is a cell in a hill to the south near the road leading to Nagothana.

Ref: Gazetteer department of Government of maharashtra.