Shivapur Dargah

From Pune Shivapur is 16 miles south of Pune, on the Pune-Satara road,the Kamar Ali Darvesh Dargah dargah is located. The dargah is named after the Pir called Kamarali Darvesh, buried there about 700 years back. He was a highly spiritual person, and there is an annual Urus  May or June when both Muslims and Hindus congregate.

It is a 700 year-old beautifully built dargah with white makrana marble, and has black marble inlay of Koranic texts running all around it at a height. Women are not supposed to enter within the Kamarali Darvesh dargah as the Pir was a bachelor, but this is observed often in the breach. There is a permanently lit lamp inside the mausoleum. Within the compound and outside the dargah-edifice proper, in the open space in-between, lie two almost round stones which are fairly huge and heavy. To me they looked like stones chiselled by man out of some strong or heavy rocks.Unfortunately, clear facts are not available, and they could well have been naturally occurring stones also.

The bigger stone  is perhaps 18 inches in diameter and is said to weigh roughly 140 lbs. The smaller stone is perhaps around 14 inches in diameter and is said to weigh about 100 lbs. ( It's so sad that these simple physical properties have not been recorded and kept ). No single person can lift any of the stones from the ground with all the ten fingers, heavy indeed as they are.