| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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| Pataliputra saw
a great council of Jain scholars under the guidance of Sthula Bhadra; and this council
collected the Jain sacred books, consisting of the 11 Angas and the 14 Purvvas, the latter
of which are collectively called the 12th Anga. South of the Gulzarbagh railway station,
within the Patna City limits, there is still a temple of Sthula Bhadra. Fahien had visited
the city and the excavations at Kumhrar, about one mile from Patna Junction railway
station have substantiated his description of the buildings of King Asoka, by Dr. Spooner
a few decades back. Patna has seen the vicissitudes of the Sisunaga Dynasty (600
B.C.-372 B.C.), Nanda Dynasty (372 B. C. - 323 B.C.), Maurya Dynasty (322 B. C. - 185
B.C.) and Sunga Dynasty (185 B.C.-73 B.C.). After this, for some time, Pataliputra had
come under the rule of the Andhras of the Deccan and it is said for a period its history
had become shrouded in obscurity. Then Pataliputra was under the sway of the Gupta
Dynasty, 300 A.D.-650 A.D. to be followed by the Palas. The impact of all of these
dynastic rules is visible in Patna in some way or the other.
About 1193 A. D. Muhamad, the son of Bukhtiar Khilji, made a clean sweep of Buddhism
from Bihar. The Mohammedan period for this area, with Patna as the centre, could be said
to start from 1193 A.D. In 1541 A.D. Patna was the provincial capital and Sher -Shah built
a fort here. Ralph Fitch in 1586 found in the town a growing commerce. |
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