Bagda is a village near

Bhadresar Bhadresar or Bhadreshwar is a village in Mundra Taluka, Kutch district of Gujarat, India. It is about 27 km from Taluka headquarters Mundra and barely a kilometer away from the seashore. History Bhadreshwar is the site of the ancient cit ...

in Kutch district,

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, India.

Places of interest

There are some memorial stones, ''

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''s, the earliest dated 1648 (

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1705) dedicated to one Khatri Parmanand. Halfway between Bagda and nearby village Vaghura is a small temple of Phuleshvar Mahadev, eleven feet by twelve, with writing which seems to show that it was rebuilt in 1837 (Samvat 1894) by Swami Surajgar. Weather-worn images of

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, and the Nandi lie about, and there is a ruined

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memorial stone dated 1630 (Samvat 1687). The

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between Bagda and Vaghura was, in 1853 (Samvat 1910), rebuilt by Gosai Hiragar Jivangar.

References

{{Kachchh-geo-stub Villages in Kutch district