Editing Indore (section)

==Etymology==
[[Gupta Empire|Gupta]] inscriptions name Indore as "Indrapura".<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|last1=Bhandarkar|first1=D. R.|title=Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings|date=1981|publisher=The Director General, Archaeological Survey of India|page=100|edition=3rd|doi=10.5281/zenodo.1210438|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1210438|access-date=26 September 2020|archive-date=7 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107135042/https://zenodo.org/record/1210438|url-status=live}}</ref> It is believed that the city is named after its Indreshwar Mahadev Temple, where [[Shiva]] is the presiding deity.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Surjan|first1=Lalit|last2=Verma|first2=Vinod|title=Reference Deśabandhu Madhya Pradesh|date=1996|publisher=Deshbandhu Publication Division|page=252|isbn=9788190073318|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyRuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=17 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117192423/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nyRuAAAAMAAJ|archive-date=17 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=मिश्रा|first1=अभिलाष|date=16 February 2023|title=Indore News: 4 हजार साल पुराने इस शिव मंदिर पर पड़ा है इंदौर शहर का नाम, जानिए इतिहास|url=https://hindi.news18.com/news/madhya-pradesh/indore-name-of-indore-city-based-4-thousand-year-old-temple-named-indreshwar-mahadev-mandir-know-history-5392705.html|work=News18 हिंदी|language=hi|access-date=5 January 2025}}</ref> It is believed that [[Indra]] himself did ''[[Tapas (Indian religions)|Tapasya]]'' (meditation) in this place and led sage Swami Indrapuri to establish the temple. Later, [[Tukoji Rao Holkar]] who belonged to the Holkar clan of the Marathas and was the feudatory of Indore, renovated the temple.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/indore-city-gained-popularity-after-his-name-1079192/|title=Indore city gained popularity after his name|date=5 August 2015|publisher=Patrika News ([[Rajasthan Patrika]])|access-date=20 July 2019|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720071130/https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/indore-city-gained-popularity-after-his-name-1079192/|url-status=live}}</ref>