Deotek
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Deotek (देवटेक) is a village in Nagbhir police station in Chandrapur district of Indian state of Maharashtra, India. An inscription in Brahmi was obtained from this place of the period of Ashoka Maurya (300-332 BCE).[1] It is placed now in the Central Museum, Nagpur.[2]
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Photograph of the ruins of a small laterite temple at Deotek, taken by Joseph David Beglar in 1873-74. Deotek is located in the Chandrapur district of the modern state of Maharashtra. The site shown in this photograph is described by J.D. Beglar in his 'Report of a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa': "The temple is small, consisting simply of a cell and its entrance; it may have had a small portico or a mandapa attached, as the ground in front is covered with cut blocks; but it could not have been large, and indeed, the temple is of the kind usually built without mandapas. The stone (laterite) it is built of, has been quarried on the spot...The temple faces east."[3]
Deotek Inscriptions
A village called "Deotak" 2–3 km from Nagbhid, There was a stone slab containing two distinct inscriptions, the characters of one being of the kind known as those of the 'Ashoka' edicts and those of the other belonging to the 'Vakataka' period. Both of them are fragmentary but mention a name Chikambari, which Mr Hira Lal has identified with Chikmara, a village close to Deotak. The slab has now been removed to the Nagpur Museum.
देवटेक
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[4] ने लेख किया है ...देवटेक (AS, p.447) जिला चांदा महाराष्ट्र से हाल ही में एक अशोक कालीन ब्राह्मी अभिलेख प्राप्त हुआ है. अशोक मौर्य का समय 300-332 ईसा पूर्व है.