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Babore is one of the most impressive sites of
archaeological importance in the District Udhampur. Now a protected monument, there exited
several temples of ancient time. Ruins of six temples in an area of one Kilometer have
been found.
The village Babore is
situated about 25 Kms from Udhampur on the Udhampur-Dhar Road near Manwal
village. The temples are the stone structures which has resemblance to one,
which the Great Kashmir ruler Lalitaditya built at Wangal
at the foot of Harmukh mountain in Kashmir in the 8th century A.D.
The remains of Babore temples throw lights to
how impressive art and architecture was prevalent even in that time. These ruins are the
structures of great solidity and considerable beauty. Some of the stones, monolithic
beams, pillars used in their construction are over a dozen feet long and their sculptures
and carving are splendid and impressive. Temples must be a part of great pilgrimage of by
gone ages which lost either importance or damaged in some calamity.
Ruins of only three have been
identified, two of these are still used by the villagers of the neighborhood for worship.
These are temples of Devi and Shiva. The Archaeological Department, Government of India,
is presently looking after these ancient monuments and trying to bring these to their
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