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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sonatapal
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| other_name =
| settlement_type =
| image_skyline = SUN TEMPLE (Around 11th Century AD).jpg
| image_caption = Sun temple at Sonatapal
| nickname =
| pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
| pushpin_label_position = left
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in West Bengal
| coordinates = {{coord|23.2146800|N|87.1228600|E|source:yahoomaps_region:IN-WB |display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts in India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bankura district|Bankura]]
| subdivision_type3 = 
| subdivision_name3 =
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| website =
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'''Sonatapal''' is located {{convert|3.2|km}} north-east of [[Ekteswar]], near Bankura town, on the banks of [[Dwarakeswar River]] in [[Bankura district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].<ref name=omalley>O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, ''Bankura'', ''Bengal District Gazetteers'', pp. 207–209, 1995 reprint, first published 1908, Government of West Bengal</ref>

==Geography==
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===Location===
Sonatapal is located at {{coord|23.2146800|N|87.1228600|E|source:yahoomaps_region:IN-WB |display=inline}}

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

==History==
Sonatapal contains a large temple ascribed to the [[History of Bankura district#Bishnupur kingdom|Rajas of Bishnupur]]. It is a remarkably solid and tall brick temple. Close to the temple, and on the low ground, which is under water during floods, are several mounds. The mounds, as well as the temple, are ascribed to Salibahan. The mounds near the river are said to be part of his ''garh'' (fort). The old name of the place is said by some to have been Hamirdanga.<ref name=omalley/>

Bankura district was once under the influence of [[Jainism]] and a number of Jain relics lie scattered in the district. Jain relics at villages Sonatapal, [[Bahulara]], [[Dharapat]], [[Harmasra|Harmasrah]] and [[Pareshnath|Paresnath]] (near [[Ambikanagar, Bankura|Ambiknagar]]) are now taken as Hindu relics and some of the intact images are daily worshipped as Hindu deities.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.hindubooks.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=144&page=9 | title = Temples and Legends of Bengal | access-date = 2009-07-12 | work = Bankura| publisher = Hindu Books}}</ref>

==Rekha deul==
[[David McCutchion|David J. McCutchion]] says that the pre-dominant traditional architectural style for temples in the western areas of Bengal in the pre-Muslim period is the tall curvilinear ''[[Bengal temple architecture#Rekha deul|rekha deul]]'' and it went on developing from the late 7th century or early 8th century to around the 12th century, increasing its complexity and height but retaining its basic features. Such temples had “curvilinear ''[[shikhara]]'' with ''[[chaitya]]'' mesh decoration, surmounted by a large ''[[amalaka]]'' and ''[[Kalasam|kalasa]]'' [[finial]]. Examples of such dilapidated deulas are still standing at [[Sat Deul|Satdeula]] (in Bardhaman), [[Bahulara Ancient Temple|Bahulara]] and Sonatapal (in Bankura) and [[Deulghata|Deulghat]] (in Purulia). On the brick deulas already mentioned here, plus [[Jatar Deul|Jatar]] (in 24 Parganas) and [[Para, Purulia|Para]] (in Purulia), “we find extensive and remarkably fine [[stucco]] work on carved brick”.<ref>McCutchion, David J., ''Late Mediaeval Temples of Bengal'', first published 1972, reprinted 2017, pages 3,13. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, {{ISBN| 978-93-81574-65-2}}</ref>

===Sonatapal picture gallery===
<gallery widths="150px" heights="100px">
File:Sun Temple of Sonatapal.jpg|Sun temple
File:Sun Temple Sonatapal, Bankura, West Bengal 02.jpg|Sun temple
File:Sun Temple Sonatapal, Bankura, West Bengal 05.jpg|Sun temple
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commonscat|Sonatapal}}

{{Bankura District}}
{{Temple towns in West Bengal}}
{{Jain centres in West Bengal}}

[[Category:Tourist attractions in Bankura district]]

{{Bankura-geo-stub}}

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