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MASARH |
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| The last
District Gazetteer of Shahabad published in 1924 mentions that there are no Buddhist
relies, but enormous images of Brahmanic goddesses were found which are still in the
village. The Gazetteer mentions: - "The remains at Masarh are confined to these
images, the foundations of some small temples and a Jain temple completed in 1819A.D. The
latter contains eight Jain statues on which are several inscriptions going back 138 A.D.,
when some Rathor Jains of Marwar appear to have settled in the village; another figure of
Parasnath contains an inscription stating that the image was dedicated by Babu Sankar Lal
of Aramnagar during the prosperous English rule over Karusha- desa.
This record though modern (1818 A.D.) is of interest
as it identifies the district of Shahabad with the ancient Karusha-desa of the Puranas
while the town of Arrah appears as Aramnagar which is probably the true form of the name
as handed down in the Jain books (see vol. III Reports, A.S. L)". |
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