| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
|
 |
| Temples& Legends Of
India |
|
|
|
SULTANGANJ |
|
|
| Champanagar had
been visited by Lord Mahavira several times and it is recorded that he had spent three
Parjjusanas (rainy season retirement) there. Champanagar was also the birth-place of
Birja-Jina and another Jain scholar, Palakpaya Muni, the author of Hasti-Ayurveda, an
elaborate account of the ailments of elephants. Champanagar is also the birthplace of the
12th Jain Tirthankara Basupujya and at Nathnagar, contiguous to Champanagar, there is a
Jain temple of the Digambaras dedicated to Basupujya. It is somewhat unlikely that
Sultanganj, being so close to Champanagar, would not have come under the Jain influence in
some way or other. Rather it could be suggested that, if excavations are still carried out
at some of the well-known sites at Sultanganj, Jain relies might be discovered. Regarding
the find of a large number of Buddhist images and particularly the very fine image of the
Buddha now in the Birmingham Museum, one has to remember that when Hieun Tsang visited
Champs, he had found several Sangha- ramas (Viharas) mostly in ruins, with about two
hundred Buddhist monks. |
[ Back ] [ Up ] [ Next ]
|
|
|
|
