File:Sahastra Linga Tank, PATAN, GUJARAT, INDIA.jpg

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English: Sahastra Linga Tank, PATAN, GUJARAT, INDIA

To The Great Jayasimha Siddh-Raja (1094-1144 A.D.), are ascribed the construction of various artificial lakes in gujarat. One of the largest and the grandest in size is trhe Sahastralinga Tank. It must have been a reservoir of immense size and derived its name from the numerous little temples containing linga placed on the banks which were dismantled during the late medieval period, when a large octagonal, rouza was raised on a part of its ruins. The great embankment surrounding it, is of solid brick work and was faced with stone masonru forming flightof steps to the water edge. Near the iddle of the eastern embankment are the remains of the old siva temple, compromising of the basements of the pavilions together with a colonnade of fort eight pillarsm it was in good condition till 16th century A.D. Bairamkhan, Akbar's tutor while passing through Patan, on his way to Mecca was said to have been murdered after he returned from boating in this tank.

Towards the western end there is a rudra kupa in which water from river saraswati was collected and then allowed to pass into the inlet channel of the sahastralinga Tank, This cisternis about forty meters in Diameter : ASI
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