Patan

The Patan District of India is located in northern Gujarat. It is surrounded by Banas Kantha District to its north and northeast, Mehsan to its south and southeast and Kutch District and Kutch nu Nanu Ran (Little Rann of Kutch). Its eastern areas, Harij and Sami, bordering Kutch are quite sensitive as there is no settled population between there and the border of Pakistan even though geographically the border is quite some distance away.
The district was carved out mainly from Mehsana District along with Radhanpur and Santalpur Talukas from Banaskantha District. Its headquarters is the city of Patan, Gujarat. Apart from Patan, Modhera is also an important tourist destination. The district had a population of 1,182,709 of which 20.16% were urban as of 2001.
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Patan has been an ancient capital of state of Gujarat very well covered by novels written by K. M. Munshi. Originally King Vanraj Chawda established this new city and named Anahilnagar. Post that many kings like Bhimdev, Kumarpal and Siddharaj ruled the state.
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Patan itself has few good tourist spots, to attract people interested in heritage and history. Sahastraling Lake (A lake of thousand Lingas) and Ranakai Vav (A deep well) are very good attractions, apart from Panchasar Jain Temple, which is supposed to have lot ancient writings belonging to Jain religion. Incredible India Tours with Indian Travel agent.

Apart from that town of Patan has lot of facilities for medical treatment and is undoubtedly the medical centre of North Gujarat.

PLACES OF INTEREST
Rani Ki Vav:
During the period of the Solanki or Chalukya, the stepwell called the Rani ki vav, or Ran-ki vav (Queen’s step well) was constructed. Incredible India Tours with Indian Travel agent. It is a richly sculptured monument. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhimdev I (A.D. 1022 to 1063) son of Mularaja, the founder of the Solanki dynasty of Anahilwada Pattan in about 1050 A.D. by his widowed queen Udayamati.

Taranga Jain Temple, Mehsana, Patan
Taranga Jain Temple was constructed by the Solanki Dynasty King Kumarpal of Gujarat under the advice of his teacher, Acharya Hemachandra. Nestled at the Mehsana town of Patan district in Gujarat Taranga (Taranga Tirtha) is a Shvetambar Jain Temple and pilgrim center. A 2.75m marble statue of Adinatha is the fundamental (Mulnayak) idol. The compound consists of 14 temples in all, five of which are from the Digambar sect. Incredible India Tours with Indian Travel agent.

The Digambar Jains established themselves on an isolated hill with its three rocky peaks. Taranga is a siddh kshetra. It is said that 35,000,000 `rishis` including Vardutt and Sagardutt achieved nirvana from this place. The two hillocks named Kotishala and Sidhhshila have idols of Bhagwan Neminath and Mallinath of Vikram 1292. There are 14 Digambar Jain Temples in the foothills. Special Holidays with very attractive and discounted packages and hotel bookings.The Digambar Jain Dharamshala is in the foothills. Sometime in the 12th century, Kumarpal, the Solanki King, residing in Patan, himself a Svetambar Jaina, chose this site to erect an exceptionally beautiful temple in honour of Adinath. Under the motivation of and guidance of Kalikalasarvajna Acharyashri Hemchandracharya, this temple was built in the year 1200 of the Vikram era. Of the 108 names of Siddhachal, one is `Tarangir`. For this reason, Taranga is regarded as a peak of Siddhachal.