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Dabhoi is a town and a municipality in the Vadodara district in the state of Gujarat, India.
Dabhoi has a big popular sunni masjid (mosque) named Kaziwad Masjid.
The town and its surroundings were under Chavda dynasty and later under Chaulukya rulers who built few buildings and temples from the ninth century.
The fortification of it is ascribed to the Chaulukya king of Gujarat, Jayasimha Siddharaja (1093-1143 AD), who made this his frontier fortress. The architectural style and the exquisite Masonry and iconography on the fort walls and gates suggest that it was conceived and constructed in the same period as Rudra Mahalaya and Zinzuwada Fort. It is mentioned as an important city in the Jain inscriptions of Girnar (VS 1288).
In the 13th century, the town came under Vaghela dynasty rule. The information on Dabhoi can be found in prashastis and inscriptions such as Someshwar prashasti, which mentions that the fort surrounding the town was built (1231 CE) during the reign of Vaghela ruler Viradhavala, father of Visaladeva, who made it his frontier fortress. He carried out the construction as a celebration of the birth of his son. The gates of it were said to construct by his ministers Vastupala and Tejapala.
The Vaidyanatha-Mahadeva temple, Parsavanath Jain temple, torana in white marble, Vireshwara temple, and Kumbeshwara complex was also built in the 13th century. Of all these, only gates, Vaidyanatha Mahadeva temple, and Parshwanath Jain temples are in good condition. The ruins of other structures and a kund suggest the grandeur of the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. It came under the Gujarat Sultanate later.
It was a district headquarter during the Mughal rule in Gujarat.
The battle of Dabhoi was fought on 1 April 1731 between Trimbakrao Dabhade and Bajirao Peshwa.
Later it was under the Baroda State.
Hira Bhagol is named after the architect, Hiradhar.
The most exquisitely carved gate, is in the east, a.k.a. Hira Darwaza, or " Gate of Diamonds," This Hira Gate, according to tradition, cost more than ten thousand pounds sterling in 1865 values. It is an immense edifice, upwards of a hundred yards long and sixty high, entirely covered with most admirable bas-reliefs of warriors on horseback and in chariots, lions, and elephants.
The Vadodara Gate in the west, Champaner Gate in the north and Nandod Gate in the south.
The fort of Dabhoi is one of the rare surviving examples of Hindu military architecture, based on the shastri traditions described in various Vastu scriptures.
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