Vadali is a town in Vadali Taluka of

Sabarkantha district Sabarkantha district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state of India, located in the Northeast India, northeastern part of the state. The administrative headquarters of the district are located in Himatnagar and the National Highway no. 48 pa ...

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, India.

History

Vadali is perhaps the O-cha-li or Vadari which Chinese traveller

Xuanzang Xuanzang (; ; 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making ...

visited between

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and Valabhi circa 640 CE. In the eleventh century, Vadali was the centre of a large kingdom. It was formerly known as Vatapalli. ''Kharataragaccha-Gurvavali'' notes the Parshvanatha temple of Vadali dated to mid-12th century. Sahanapala, son of Haripala (a Pratihara of the Paramara king Dharavarsha) built the ''mandapa'' of the Vaidyanath temple at Vadali in

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1264 (1208 CE).

Demographics

Vadali has a population of 23,000.

Geography

It's surrounded by mountains which are parts of the

Aravali Range The Aravalli Range (also spelled ''Aravali'') is a mountain range in North India, Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana and Rajasthan, and ending in Ahme ...

Economy

The chief source of income of people is agriculture. The villages surrounding Vadali grow large number of vegetables. It supplies vegetables to Sabarkantha district and as far as

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and

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Transport

It is located thirteen kilometres north of Idar. It is located on State Highway connecting

Himatnagar Himatnagar or Himmatnagar is a city and the headquarters of Sabarkantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city is on the bank of the river Hathmati. History Himatnagar was founded in by Ahmad shah of Gujarat Sultanate and named i ...

and

Ambaji Ambaji (''Ambājī'') is a census town in Banaskantha district in the state of Gujarat, India. Geography Ambaji is a town within taluka district Banaskantha, North Gujarat, India. It is located at . It is at an altitude of . It is surrounde ...

. It is 30 km from Polo forest.

References

{{reflist Villages in Sabarkantha district