| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
KONCH |
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| Introduction Konch is a large village about eighteen miles from Gaya on the Gaya-Daudnagar road. Gaya is the headquarters of the Gaya district and is served by the Gaya railway station of the Eastern Railway (Grand Chord line). It is also well situated on an all-weather road from Calcutta to Mughalsarai. Passenger buses run daily from Gaya to Daudnagar via Konch. Horsedrawn light vehicles (ekkas) are also available. There is an Inspection Bungalow available to the public at Tikari, which is four miles away from Konch. Ekkas are also available at Tikari. Passenger buses too ply from Tikari. Konch contains remains of numerous temples, but the principal one is an ancient temple entirely of bricks. The temple is a square building, the dimension of which on the outside is 27 feet 6 inches square with a chamber inside 11 feet square. The entrance is to the east. The height is nearly 70 feet. It has two storeys. The lower story is vaulted in the Hindu fashion, that is, it has two arched roofs meeting in a ridge. Bricks overlapping on all the four sides till they meet at a point form the upper storey. The doorway isalmost as high as the room inside. The construction of the temple in bricks is a feat of high engineering skill considering the time it was built.
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