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Aurangabad City Description
 

Aurangabad is an important industrial town as well as a popular conference center. The city is a convenient base for organizing visits to the world-famous rockcut temples of Ajanta and Ellora. Besides, the presence of Buddhist caves in the vicinity show that the region enjoyed celebrity status as early as the 7th century. Named after Aurangzeb, last of the six grate Moghul emperors, and his son Azam Shah, who built a mausoleum here for his father’s wife, Rabia Durrani, Aurangabad lies almost in the enter of maharashtra.

 
The city derived its name from the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Though it is fast developing into an industrial town, a large number of visitors to it are tourists heading for the famous Ajanta and Ellora caver which lie about 106 km and 30 km from the town respectively. The Aurangabad caves of Buddhist origin are 7 km away. They include chapels and monasteries, some of which have fine sculptures. The Bibi Ka Maqbara, five km away, is a mausoleum built between 1657 and 1661 by Aurangzeb for his wife Dilras Banu Begum. The mausoleum is modelled on the Taj Mahal and is considered the first Mughal monument in the Deccan. Panchakki is a 17th century water maill where water energy was used to turn huge grinding stones to grind wheat into flour. Near by us the Tomb of Baba Shah Musafir.

The History Museum of Marathwada University and the State Archaeology Museum (Sonehri Mahal) are interesting place. The former museum has on display excavations from 2nd century B.C., sculptures dating back to 7th and 12th centuries A.D., miniature paintings of the maratha, Rajput and Mughal times, paintings of the East India Company, weaponry, besides Persian and Arabic manuscripts of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Sonehri Mahal has sculptures and panels dug out of archaeological sites in Paithan about 56 km from Aurangabad.

By Air Indian Airlines and Jet Airways fly daily from Mumbai. Indian Airlines also operates daily flights from Delhi.

By Rail Aurangabad is well connected to most major Indian cities.

By Road Aurangabad is well connected to Mumbai (392 km), Nasik (221 km), Shirdi (136 km) Ajanta (106 km), Pune (299 km), and Ellora (30 km).