About two miles to the north-west of the village, in a low country surrounded by hills and overgrown with bushes, the ruins of Paddhargadh, Punvaranogadh or Patan, are there which has traces of once been a large well-peopled city.

[1] Punvaranogadh was built around 878 by Punvar, son of Ghaa or Ghav, the chief of Kera, Kutch and possibly a nephew of Lakho Phulani.

The small, or half-day palace, Nani Medi or addho taro, for it was only twelve hours building, one storied, of stone, and with rather poor carving, is forty feet long by thirty-three broad.

There are two rooms in the back with two verandahs The roof is a flat terrace of massive stone slabs, joined with dove-tails of iron and plastered with cement 11⁄2 inches thick.

The temple, facing the west, of blocks of grey and black iron sandstone put together without cement, must have stood about fifty feet high.

The dome has fallen, hut an upper floor, with rosettes in the middle of the ceiling and a cornice of creeping plants cut in the stone, is entire.

One of them, of the same stone as the 'half- day palace' stands on a platform 70 feet long 50 wide and 15 high, built of large blocks ornamented with bands of carving and with a ruined shrine at each corner.

In this porch; ten feet high pillars support a dome of excellent workmanship with, under its centre, a sacred fire hollow, agnikund.