| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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| Temples & Legends
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KURKIHAR |
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| Hiuen Tsang
describes the hill as lofty and scrapped, with three-fold peaks that spring into the air.
After receiving Buddha's instruction for twenty years, Kasyapa ascended the Kukkuta-Pada
mountain on the north side, and walked along towards the south-west, where he was stopped
by a scrapped face. He struck the rock with his staff and left it in two and then marched
boldly into the heart of the mountain. On reaching the middle peak he took up Buddha's
chivara (dress). The three peaks approached and retired (or closed and opened)
according to his mere wish. When Maitreya visited this mountain, Kasyapa presented him
with the chivara of Buddha, and after performing some miracles entered into nirvana. All
this legend IS now fading out so far as the people of the locality are concerned.
So far as the relies are concerned, carved slabs of large size and architectural
fragments of all kinds are found in plenty, often built into the walls of the houses;
votive stupas of different sizes are seen in number on the edge of the large tank
adjoining the village on the south, where they now serve as washerman's stones, as well as
in other Places; and greatquantities of large bricks of ancient make are still being dug
out of the great mound south of the village. There is a fine collection of Kurkihar bronze
and Buddhist antiquities in the Patna Museum. |
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