Suket Kota

Author:Laxman Burdak IFS (R)

Kota district Map

Suket in Kota district

Suket (सुकेत) is town in Ramganj Mandi tahsil in Kota district in Rajasthan. Suket lies on the bank of the Ahu River

Variants

• Sukeit (James Todd)

Location

Suket is a census town, near the city of Kota in Kota district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is well known for mining of Kota Stone a yellow or green limestone. Suket lies on the bank of the Ahu River, a tributary of the river Chambal.

History

James Tod visited Bhainsrorgarh on 19 February 1820 and has provided us following information:

Under Bhynsror, the current is never very gentle ; but both above and below there are rapids, if not falls, of thirty to fifty feet in descent. That above the stream is termed the Chooli, because full of whirlpools and eddies, which have given a sacred character to it, like the Nerbudda, at ' the whirlpools of the great god,' Chooli Maheswar, A multitude of the round stones taken out of these vortices, when they have been rounded by attrition into a perfectly orbicular form, only require consecration and a little red paint to be converted into the representatives of Bhiroo, the god of war, very properly styled the elder born of Siva, the destroyer. This is about two miles up the stream ; there is another at Kotrah, about three miles down, with several successive rapids. There is a fall in the vicinity of Rampoora, and another about five coss north of it, at Choraitagurh, where the river first penetrates the plateau. There, I understand, it is not above seventy yards in breadth, confined between cliffs perfectly perpendicular. There is also said to be another fall or rapid intermediate between Rampoora and its source in the peak of Janapa, in the neighbourhood of Oneil,

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[p.598]: If these are all the falls, though only amounting to rapids, we may form a tolerable idea of the difference of level between the base of the Oopermal and the highland of the Vindhyaa whence the Chambal issues ; and still we snail see that there are points where the perpendicular cliffs must be some hundred feet above the peak of Janapa ; if so, this chasm was never formed by water.

Mewar still extends east of the river, and the greater part of. the estate of Bhynsror is on the opposite side. A small stream, called the Kurb-ca-Khal, divides the lands of the Haras from those of the Seesodias, and there is a beejuk-marka, or land-mark inscription, at the Shesa tallao, put up centuries ago. To this line, and between it and the Chambal, is the putta of Koondal ; and farther south, towards Rampoora, is that of Puchail, both containing twenty-four villages attached to Bhynsror. All that tract farther inland in Upper Malwa, termed Malki-des, in which are the towns of Chychut and Sukeit, was in old times included geographically in Mewar ; it is yet possessed by the Suktawuts, though subject to Kotah.

सुकेत

सुकेत भारत के राजस्थान राज्य के कोटा ज़िले में स्थित एक नगर है। इस क्षेत्र में एक प्रसिद्ध पीले रंग का बलुआ पत्थर मिलता है, जो "कोटा स्टोन" कहलाता है और जिसका प्रयोग भवन-निर्माण में शताब्दियों से करा जा रहा है।