Wategaon is a town in Sangli district, Maharashtra, India. Wategaon (pop. 4,255) is a village in walva taluka lying 16 km (ten miles) west of Islampur and 9.65 km (six miles) north-west of Peth. It was once an alienated village and was held by a Brahman Kemavisdar under the Kurundvad chief to whom it belonged, it has sprung up on either side of the Bhogavati Ganga, a stream, and has better roads and streets as compared to other villages of its size. It is connected with Islampur and Peth by a good made road. There are a few traders trading in raw sugar and tobacco and other agricultural produce. Vateganv has a primary school, a high school, two private dispensaries and a post office. Wells and the Bhogavati Ganga stream provide drinking water. Objects Laksmi Narayan Temple In the western half, on the left bank of the stream there are two temples, one each dedicated to Laksmi Narayan and Vatesvar Mahadev. The original portions of the structures are of finely hewn stones and consist of an inner shrine or gabhara about 0.2 m2 (ten feet square) and dome roofed. The entrance is through an arch 0.914 metres (three feet) wide and 0.914 metres (three feet) thick. There is a 0.19 (three feet) wide cross passage and another similar door leading by one step into the outer hall, which is about 1.30 m2 (14 feet square) cut off by oblique canopy like arches. The roof is also dome shaped and about 9.14 metres (30 feet) high, all of large stone. Two more steps lead into another mandap with galleries of rough work and is used for delivering or reciting puranas. The idols of Laksmi and Narayan are on a curious stand consisting of five upright blocks or slabs of highly polished stone each one broader than and ranged behind the other, the broadest being behind. The cuter corners of each are decorated with a carved pendant shaped like a ram's head, The gabhara is crowned by a pyramid like pinnacle about 12.19 metres (40 ft.) high from the ground decorated with figures of gods and goddesses in relief, in cut stone instead of in brick. The four corners of the gabhara and the inner mandap have smaller pinnacles to march and there is also a central pinnacle to the inner mandap. Except for a fine masonry wall built on the side