Nevasa is a city in Nevasa tehsil of Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Mohiniraj Temple
The city of Nevasa is the location of a 75 - foot tall temple of
Mohini, built in 1773, which houses an image of Mohiniraj (
Vishnu).
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The remains of a multilevel settlement dating from the Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages have been discovered at Navasa. Excavations were conducted by H. D. Sankalia in the 1950s and by G. Karve-Corvinus in 1967. Nevasa's Aeneolithic layer reveals a settled agricultural culture characterized in the second millennium B.C. by implements (elongated plates) similar to those of the Harappa civilization, in modern-day
Pakistan.
