Borivli

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Borivli

Village in the Salsette taluka of Thana District, Bombay, situated in 19° 14' N. and 72° 51' E., on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, about 22 miles north of Bombay. Popu- lation* (190 1), 182. Borivli is a convenient centre for visiting several places of interest. The Kanheri caves lie up the Tulsl valley about five miles to the east. At Mandapeshvar, called Monpezier or Monpa^er by the Portuguese, about 2 miles north of Borivli, are situated a notable white Portuguese watch-tower, and a set of Brahmanic caves, over a thousand years old, one of the latter being specially interesting from having been used as a Catholic chapel. On the top of the rock in which the caves are cut stands a large and high-roofed Portuguese cathedral, lately repaired, and extensive ruined buildings belonging to a college and monastery.

In a mango orchard, at Eksar, in rich wooded country about a quarter of a mile south of Mandapeshvar and a mile north-west of Borivli, are six great blocks of stone about 8 feet high by 3 feet broad. They are memorial stones richly carved with belts of small figures, the record of sea- and land-fights probably of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. About half a mile to the east of Borivli station, close to the border-lands of Poinsar and the deserted village of Magathan, are some Buddhist rock-cut cisterns and some half-under- ground Buddhist caves. A few hundred yards to the east lie some Buddhist tombs and the remains of a Buddhist monastery, probably of the fifth or sixth century. At Akurli, about 2 miles to the south-east, in rugged bush-land, rises a large mound of black trap, on the top of which are some quaint rough carvings and Pali letters, perhaps two thousand years old. Two miles farther south, in thickly wooded uplands, is the great Jogeshvari cave, a Brahmanic work probably of the seventh century. The railway can be joined at Goregaon station, which is about 3 miles north-west of the Jogeshvari cave.