Mahimangad

Mahimangad stands roughly 9 km west of Dahivadi in Maan taluka, Satara district, about 250 ft above the hamlets at its foot. The fort is a flat, roughly triangular tableland some 100 yards long and 40 wide, ringed by a sheer scarp of black trap. It is named as one of the chain of forts Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj built to guard his eastern frontier, though some locals claim it dates from Muslim rule.

A path with rough steps climbs to a gateway cut into the scarp below the summit, and 22 rock-cut steps turn up from there to the top. Near the gate is a spring-fed tank cut in the rock. On top are a ruined office, a masonry tank about 30 ft square, a pit perhaps used for prisoners, a large gun turret and three bastions. An upright stone on the east bastion is worshipped as Jajarnath Mahadev, with a small fair in his honour, and a ruined pir shrine stands near the south-west bastion.