Abstract:
India is land of rich cultural heritage and temples, forts, of various style architects. Maharashtra is no
exception for these heritages and various style architects. There are so many temples and architectural
monuments with different art observed in Maharashtra. Jejuri is one of the most famous temples of
Shiva avatar khandoba in Pune District of Maharashtra state, India with combination of different
architectural style. Temple surrounded by fort was built with stones observed in Deccan plateau.The
main temple mandap is built with hemadpanthi style in 8 to 12th century with mandap in Yadava’s
dynasty and later extended ardhamandap and garbhagriha, shikhara in 16 th century by Maratha
chieftain Ragho mambaji. While around temple after dismissal from Mughal, fort is restructured and
made around16th -18th centurybyHolkarfamily.Therearearchives,curves,Deepmala and symbols
observed in temples shows temple architect combination and how old is the temple. Almost 16 plus
inscription observed in main fort. These inscriptions are in Marathi. The various statues on walls like
sayal, Garuda, lion, devi, flower etc. indicates the history era. While on footstep many stones have
inscriptions are in Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Urdu, Sanskrit etc. These steps are made as rituals
followed to make step to climb and offerings towards deity. The fort outlook, corridors is made up of
combination of Maratha, Mughal, Deccan, Rajput, architectural style. The welcome arch while
climbing steps also have various inscriptions, which show involvement of various kingdom and
Sardar family while, built of it. Recent work modification around 1980’s of shikhara is of south
Indian style.
