Cenotaphs and Old City Palace, Dhar, Madhya Pradesh India

The old city palace of the Powar clan, a branch of the Marathas, is now used as a school. It is a modest building put up in the late 19th century around 1875. A marble statue of the Jain goddess Ambika, found in 1875 on the site of the palace is now in the British Museum. Of the same period as the palace are a collection of domed cenotaphs of the Powar rulers on the edge of the large tank known as Munj Talab. The name of the tank probably derives from Vakpati Munja (circa 895-920), the Paramara king who first entered Malwa and made Ujjain his main seat.