Rapta Ghat — Attraction in Mandla

This is the place of shiv and maa narmada Mandla is a town with municipality in Mandla district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Mandla District. The town is picturesquely situated in a loop of the Narmada River, which surrounds it on three sides, and for 15 miles between Mandla and Ramnagar the river flows in a deep bed unbroken by rocks. The Narmada is worshiped here, and many beautiful ghats have been constructed on the banks of the river. It was a capital of the Gondwana dynasty who built a palace and a fort, which in the absence of proper care have gone to ruins.

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Garha Fort in Killa Ghat

Writers such as Alexander Cunningham,[1] John Faithfull Fleet[2]and Moti Raven Kangali, Girija Shankar Agrawal[3] identify Mandla as the location of ancient Mahishmati.

Gondwana queen, Rani Durgawati shah Maravi ruled Mandla province and fought against Akbar her valiant effort to save her kingdom is still subject of folklore. Rani Avanti bai of Ramnagar later fought with British to save her kingdom from annexation.

The Gondwana dynasty of Garha-Mandla commenced, according to an inscription in the palace of Ramnagar, in the fifth century, with the accession of Jadho Rai, an adventurer who entered the service of an old Gond king, married his daughter, and succeeded him to the throne. Alexander Cunningham placed the date two centuries later in 664 . The Garha-Mandla kingdom was a petty local chiefship until the accession of Raje Sangram Shah Madawi, the forty-seventh king, in 1480. This prince extended his dominions over the Narmada Valley, and possibly Bhopal, Sagar, and Damoh and most of the Satpura hill country, and left fifty-two forts or districts to his son. In addition to Mandla, Jabalpur and Garha in Jabalpur District and Ramnagar in Mandla District served at times as capitals of the kingdom.[4]

The control of the Garha-Mandla kings over their extended principality was, however, short-lived, for in 1564 Asaf Khan, the Mughal viceroy, invaded their territories. The queen Durgavati, then acting as regent for her infant son, met him near Singorgarh fort in Damoh District; but being defeated, she retired past Garha towards Mandla, and took up a strong position in a narrow defile. Here, mounted on an elephant, she bravely headed her troops in defense of the pass, and notwithstanding that she had received an arrow-wound in her eye refused to retire. But by an extraordinary coincidence the river in the rear of her position, which had been nearly dry a few hours before the action commenced, began suddenly to rise and soon became unfordable Finding her plan of retreat thus frustrated, and seeing her troops give way, the queen snatched a dagger from her elephant-driver and plunged it into her breast. Asaf Khan acquired immense booty, including, it is said, more than a thousand...

In this ever-modernizing world, sometimes it is hard to keep a calm and clear head to face with many problems arising everyday. The fast pace of city life usually tires me to hell by snowing me under a lot of pressure. Whenever feel tired, there is one place I would love to go to, the place where time seems to stand still and I can release all of my stress, letting the wind blow it away. This is nothing but a riverbank which is called RAPTA GHAT. It gives me so much different kinds of feelings, which I cannot feel on my daily life. It gives me warmth, relaxation, depression, joy, and etc. What causes me to feel these different types of feelings? It is because of the pleasant and beautiful surrounding of the ghat. It is very quite, so it sets the mood that I want to think about anything, like about my life. Tired of the day's job, maybe full of stress and draining, thinking of somewhere better and interesting then you are in the right place. A little walk around can do you a lot of favor with the cool breeze and calmness of the weather around this serene place. Depending on the time of the day, the river is a good place to take your bath. You need not care about how clean the water is as the water naturally flows and unclean once are automatically replaced. Sometimes, if I have lots of things to think about I stay there until the sunsets and the night comes. When it is night and it is dark, there is thousands and millions of stars in the sky. They gives us...

Best place to spent your lonely time or even with friends and family. The sound of the flowing water comforts your ears, the fresh air touches your face, birds chirping up in the sky, makes the your surroundings So peaceful that you feel like it's a complete heaven♥️. You can even have a morning and an evening walk. Even the sunrise and sunset view is amazing...there are many temples where you can visit and have a look over them too...love this...