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{{Infobox settlement
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| map_caption = Map showing Kantela (#206) in the taluka of Porbandar
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'''Kantela''' is a village in [[Porbandar]] district of [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. It is located {{convert|7|mi}} northwest of Porbandar, and around {{convert|0.5|mi}} from the sea. As of 2011, its population was 1,289, in 259 households.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Gujarat District Census Handbook - Porbandar, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=134–162 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/GujaratA.html |website=Census 2011 India|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref>

To the north of the village is a water reservoir known as the Revati Kund, along with the Revateshwar Mahadev temple, said to have been founded by one Raja Revat. An inscription here, dated to ''[[samvat]]'' 1320 (1264 CE), describes the repair of the Revati Kund by one Samat Singh, who was viceroy of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] and, later, minister of [[Vaghela dynasty#Genealogy|Arjundev Vaghela]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1884">{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume VIII: Káthiáwár |date=1884 |publisher=Government Central Press |location=Bombay |page=504 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pz3rFgOTkyUC |accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref>

[[Acharya Valabhji Haridat]] derived the name "Kantela" from ''kānt'', "husband", and ''vela'', "[[Wind wave|wave]]", due to the above inscription containing a passage translated as ''"Here, in the seat of her glory, did [[Revati]] sport with her husband in the woods on the seashore."''<ref name="Gazetteer 1884"/>

Its population in 1872 was 302, and in 1881 it was 373. It was described as economically very poor at the time.<ref name="Gazetteer 1884"/>

== References ==
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[[Category:Villages in Porbandar district]]

{{Porbandar-geo-stub}}

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