Maheshwar is a town in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh state, in central India. The town lies on the north bank of the Narmada River, It is built on the site of the ancient city of Mahesvari, and was the capital of king Arjuna Kartavirya, who was mentioned in the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.An ancient name of Maheshwar is Mahishmati. Madhya Pradesh (मध्य प्रदेश) is a state in central India. ... The Narmada or Nerbudda is a river in central India. ... The Sanskrit language ( संस्कृता वाक्) is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. ... The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahabharata - see note), sometimes just called Bharata, is one of the two major ancient Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. ... Lord Ram, Laxman, Sita and Hanuman(crouching) The Ramayana (Sanskrit: march (ayana) of Rama) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ...

In the late eighteenth century Maheshwar served as the capital of the Maratha Rani (queen) Ahalya Bai Holkar, ruler of the state of Indore. She embellished the city with many buildings and public works, and it is home to her palace, as well as numerous temples, a fort, and riverfront ghats, broad stone steps which step down to the river. The fort is home to a state archeological museum. Maratha is a kshatriya (warrior) caste of Marathi language speaking people primarily residing in the plains and hills of Indias western state of Maharashtra. ... The Holkar were a prominent Maratha family, who ruled as rajas and later maharajas of Indore in central India as part of the Maratha Confederacy until 1818, and afterwards as a princely state of British India until Indias independence, when the Holkars acceded to the Indian government. ...

Maheshwar is noted as a center for weaving colorful cotton saris, with distinctive designs involving stripes, checks and floral borders.Near to Maheshwar is Sahastradhara(a water fall of thousand streams). Maheshawar was in news recently due to a big dam that will be constructed at some distance from here under Narmada valley development project. Noted movie of Shahrukh Khan "Ashoka" was also shot here. Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... This article is about the garment worn by Indian and Bangladeshi women. ...