{"id":356499,"date":"2026-02-20T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=356499"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:25:36","slug":"naneghat-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naneghat-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Naneghat Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>N<\/strong><b>ews= <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past year, illegal constructions were reported in protected areas near = Naneghat rock-cut caves, leading to ASI criminal cases and initiation of demolition process.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About Naneghat Caves<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Naneghat caves are ancient <\/span><b>rock-cut caves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the <\/span><b>first century BCE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> known for important inscriptions and trade-route significance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are located in a mountain pass in the <\/span><b>Western Ghats <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between the <\/span><b>Konkan coast and Junna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r in <\/span><b>Junnar taluka of Pune district in Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Commissioned by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were commissioned by a queen of the Satavahana dynasty, Nayanika or Naganika, likely the wife of king Satakarni.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Key features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Language and Script of Inscriptions: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The caves contain Sanskrit inscriptions written in Brahmi script and in a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Religious Affiliation and Rituals: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inscriptions mention <\/span><b>Vedic and Hinduism deities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and describe <\/span><b>Vedic srauta rituals.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Satavahana Historical Record: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They narrate details of the lives of the Satavahana royal family and record names that provide historical information about early rulers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Early Numeration Symbols: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inscriptions display the world\u2019s oldest numeration symbols for 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9 resembling modern Nagari and Hindu-Arabic numerals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News= Over the past year, illegal constructions were reported in protected areas near = Naneghat rock-cut caves, leading to ASI criminal cases and initiation of demolition process. About Naneghat Caves The Naneghat caves are ancient rock-cut caves from the first century BCE known for important inscriptions and trade-route significance. Location: They are located in a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naneghat-caves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naneghat Caves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-356499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}