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The '''Siyot Caves''', sometimes referred to as the '''Kateshwar Buddhist Caves''',<ref name="MishraRay2016" /> are five [[Indian rock-cut architecture|rock-cut]] caves located near Siyot village in the Lakpat Taluka of [[Kutch district]], [[Gujarat]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ignca.nic.in/mausam/Mausam_Concept.pdf |title=Maritime Landscapes and Coastal Architecture: The Long Coastline of India |last=Ray |first=Himanshu Prabha |website=IGNCA |page=3 |format=PDF }}</ref>

The main cave has east facing sanctum, ambulatory and space divisions which suggests a [[Shiva]] temple from the first or second century.<ref name="MishraRay2016">{{cite book |author1=Susan Verma Mishra |author2=Himanshu Prabha Ray |title=The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The Temple in Western India, 2nd Century BCE–8th Century CE |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CtDLDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 |date=5 August 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-19374-6 |page=74}}</ref> The cave was used by Buddhists later which can be concluded based on the seals found herein and the traces of [[Brahmi]] inscriptions. Other caves are simple single cells which were probably the part of eighty Buddhist caves located near the mouth of [[Indus river]] as reported by [[Xuanzang]] in seventh century.<ref name="Deshpande2013">{{cite book |author=Aruna Deshpande |title=Buddhist India Rediscovered |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbUQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT133 |date=1 November 2013 |publisher=Jaico Publishing House |isbn=978-81-8495-247-6 |page=133}}</ref><ref name="GujTour">{{cite web |title=Siyot Caves |website=Gujarat Tourism |url=http://www.gujarattourism.com/destination/details/6/347 |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Megalithic2007">{{cite web |title=Siot caves, Lakhpat taluka |website=Megalithic Portal Gallery |date=28 October 2007 |url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=23167 |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Megalithic7">{{cite web |title=Siot caves, Lakhpat taluka |website=The Megalithic Portal |date=28 October 2007 |url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=26555 |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="nm2014">{{cite web |title=On Modi website, a piece on Gujarat's Buddhist link |website=The Indian Express |date=15 September 2014 |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/narendra-modis-website-aligns-gujarats-buddhist-history-with-china/ |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="The Times of India 2014">{{cite web |title=Mausam to link 10 Gujarat sites to Indian Ocean world |website=The Times of India |date=24 July 2014 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mausam-to-link-10-Gujarat-sites-to-Indian-Ocean-world/articleshow/38948880.cms |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Times of India2010">{{cite web |title=Gujarat to be projected as Buddhist pilgrimage destination |website=The Times of India |date=11 January 2010 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gujarat-to-be-projected-as-Buddhist-pilgrimage-destination/articleshow/5431690.cms |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="India2011">{{cite web |title=India plans to preserve Buddhist caves |website=Buddhist Channel |date=30 March 2011 |url=http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=4,10028,0,0,1,0 |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="IBTL 2012">{{cite web |title=A Virtual Tour, Gujarat Govt Preserving Rich Buddhist Heritage |website=India Behind The Lens (News Centre) IBTL |date=20 April 2012 |url=http://www.ibtl.in/news/states/2046/a-virtual-tour-gujarat-govt-preserving-rich-buddhist-heritage |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref> Local people believes that these caves were used by [[dacoity|dacoits]] to hide things looted from people in past.<ref name="Ha Ame Gujarati">{{cite web |title=સિયોત ગુફા |website=Ha Ame Gujarati |url=http://haamegujarati.com/placesdetail-81 |language=gu |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref>

The excavation in 1988–89 recovered clay seals engraved with Buddha images in various [[mudra]]s and seals engraved with late Brahmi and [[Devnagari]] inscriptions. Other findings were copper rings, [[Indo-Sasanian coinage|Gadhaiya coins]], terracotta [[Nandi (bull)|Nandi]] with bell and chain, different types of earthen wares like ''Surahi''. Based on [[Stratigraphy (archaeology)|stratigraphic]] evidence, it is established that the site was occupied by Buddhist before it was again occupied by Shaivaites around twelfth or thirteenth century.<ref name="MishraRay2016" /><ref>{{Cite journal |year=1993 |editor-last=Joshi |editor-first=M. C. |title=Excavation at Siyot, District Kutch |url=http://www.asi.nic.in/nmma_reviews/Indian%20Archaeology%201988-89%20A%20Review.pdf |journal=Indian Archaeology 1988–89: A Review |publisher=The Director General, [[Archaeological Survey of India]] | page=10 |place=New Delhi}}</ref> The site was repaired after [[2001 Gujarat earthquake]].<ref name="www.divyabhaskar.co.in 2011">{{cite web |title=સ્થાપત્યોની જાળવણી માટે અઢી કરોડ... પણ! |website=divyabhaskar.co.in |date=24 January 2011 |url=http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/news-fb/KUT-BUJ-one-crores-for-care-of-architecture-but-ignore-of-asi-1785635.html |language=gu |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref>

There is a primitive [[stepwell]] located nearby.<ref name="Megalithic2007" />
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