Sirohi district General information

Sirohi District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India. The town of Sirohi is the district headquarters.

 Location
   
Sirohi is one amongst the small districts of the State. It is situated in the South-West of Rajasthan bounded by Pali district, in the North-East by Udaipur district, in the East by Gujarat State and Jalore in the West.
 
History
The Name Sirohi had been derived by "Siranwa" hills on the Western Slope of which it stands. Colonel Tod in his book "Travels in Western India" has suggested that the names of the territory might have derived from its position at the head (Sir) of the desert (Rohi), Sirohi also named as "Sword" and this had led some people to believe that this State of brave Deora Chauhans received it present name due to its wide spread fame of its Swords.

In 1405, Rao Sobha Ji (Sixth in descent from Rao Deoraj, the Progenitor of the Deora Clan of Chauhans ) founded a town Shivpuri on eastern slope of Siranwa hill which is called KHUBA. Relics of the old city is found there and a pivious place of Virji is still a place of worship.
 
 
 Sehastramal, the son of Rao Sobha ji founded the present city SIROHI on weatern slope and liad foundation stone of the Sirohi fort on second day of Vaisakh in the year 1482 (V.S.) i.e. 1425 (A.D.) on the top the present town of Sirohi and made it his Capital which lies on the Western Slope of the Siranwa hills, later all the area under Deoras came to be known as Sirohi. In puranic tradition this area has always been referred to as "Arbudh Pradesh".
It was also sometimes known as Arbudanchal. i.e. Arbud + Anchal. 
 

Culture
Folk Songs and Folk dances are the traditional way of amusement and entertainment of the people of Siorhi. With development of the civilization and education, in modern & sophisticated society today the folk songs and dances had now being considered as the tradition of the uncultured society. In the so called cultured society the songs and dances are performed only on the special occassions like birth of a child, marriage ceremony and these are also enfluenced by the films and other media. They are far away from the traditional songs which are full of melody and classical, in the sense that they are based on some raagas. Tribal and people residing in rural area are found of singing folk songs and performing the folk dances on the occassion of festivals, fair, marriages and religious occassions etc

 Climate
                    
Sirohi has moderate climate.
Maximum temperature is 40 degrees Celsius
Minimum temperature is zero degree Celsius
Rainfall in Abu Road is 489 mm, in Pindwara it is 613 mm, in Reodar 539 mm, Sheoganj 578 mm and in Abu 1343.6 mm per annum.   

Places of interest

Sarneshwar temple
Kashi Vishwanath Mahadev Temple - Kasindra
Arunesvara Mahadev Temple - Kasindra
Hrishikesh Temple
Markundeshwar Temple
Sarvadham Temple
Temple street
Ambeshwarji temple
Pavapuri Jain temple
This King's Place
Kambeshawar Mahadev(sheoganj)
Gankeshwar Mahade(palri M)
Gotam Rishi temple(posaliya)