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These caves belong to the Buddhist faith
and it is not certain as to how and when these caves began to be called
Bagh Gumpha. In modern times these caves were first discovered in 1818.
It seems that after the extinction of Buddhism in Central India by the
10th Century A.D. these caves remained effaced from human memory. During
the intervening centuries the caves often became the abode of tigers
(Bagh) and this association of tigers with the caves gave then the
present name. The village situated at a distance of about 8 km. and the
river flowing nearby the cave came to be known as Bagh village and Bagh
river. The other view states otherwise. It believed that either the name
of the river or of the village has given its name to others.
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