Kalo Dungar

View from kala dunger kutch

Kalo Dungar or Black Hill is the highest point in Kutch, Gujarat, India, at 462 m. It is located at 97 km from District headquarters of Bhuj and 25 km from nearest town Khavda.[1][2][3]

This is probably the only place in Kachchh from where a panoramic view of the Great Rann of Kutch is possible. Since it is located very near to the Pakistan border, there is an Army post at the top; beyond here, only military personnel are allowed.[1][2][3]

The Kalo Dungar is also famous for a 400-year-old Dattatreya temple. Legend says that when Dattatreya walked on the earth, he stopped at the Black Hills and found a band of starving jackals. Being a god, he offered them his body to eat and as they ate, his body continually regenerated itself. Because of this, for the last four centuries, the priest at the temple has prepared a batch of prasad, cooked rice, that is fed to the jackals after the evening aarti.[1][2][3]

Another, legend has it that there was once a holy man named Lakkh Guru residing at Kala Dungar and worshiping the Lord Dattatreya. He used to feed wild jackals. There came a day when he found he had no food, so cutting-off a part of his body he offered it to the jackals, saying, “Le ang!’ (Take body part). Over the centuries, this got corrupted to ‘Long’.[2]

A strange phenomenon was observed at Kalo Dungar, when some visitors noticed that their vehicles were hurtling down the hill at speeds over 80 km/h even with the ignition switched off. The team of experts from the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA), and Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur studied the phenomenon.[4] It is concluded that the vehicle hurtle down fast due to the more gradient of the slope.[5]

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 The Jackals and Legend of Kalo Dungar
  3. 1 2 3 KALO DUNGAR
  4. ↑ Experts set to probe mystery roll-down at Kalo Dungar TIMES OF INDIA, DEC 26,2010
  5. ↑ Kaushik, Himanshu (20 October 2011). "Nothing magnetic about Kala Dungar". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 February 2016.

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