Idar

Idar is a town in Sabarkantha district, Gujarat, India. It is known for the manufacture of handmade wooden toys, tiles, its temples and ious beautiful architectural monuments on hill, and its historical background. Idar is at the southern end of the Aravalli Range. Generally named, Ilvadurg which implies the stronghold of Ilvan, the name later undermined into Idar. It was said in Padma Purana and additionally in the Mahabharata as Ila.

The town is said in Mahabharata and Bhavishottar Puran as 'Ilvadurg'. The correct date of its inception isn't known; yet it is trusted that it appeared when Yudhishthira was administering over Hastinapur toward the finish of the Kurukshetra War of Mahabharata. The primary clear custom shows Idar in the ownership of Bhils. After the fall of Vallabhi in 770, Kamalavati or Pushpavati, one of the spouses of Maitraka lord Shiladitya was at Ambaji to satisfy a pledge.

She heard news and took asylum in a collapse the mountains and there brought forth a child called Gruhaditya or 'Goha' or give in conceived. Making over the kid to a Brahmin lady, the ruler finished her significant other the fire. The youthful ruler, of a challenging character and bold soul, before long go out of his gatekeeper's hands, and joining the Idar Bhils was by them picked lord. Regardless of whether in game or sincere, the decision was genuine, and for a few ages his successors managed in Idar.