cover image: The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

Premium

20.500.12592/5r8fz4

The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

1923

When the caves and temples of Bajagriha were alacloned to the ravages of decay and the followers of Tathagata forsook the dwellings of their vreat teachers the monastery of Nalanda arose in all its splendour on the banks of the lakes of Burgaon. [...] It was at this time that the necessity arose for the two main flights of steps the one leading from the entrance up to the top storey of the monastery and the other clown therefrom into its courtyard ; for the monks it seems still utilized the well in the courty4rd which was now finished off with the Higher circular parapet at its top. [...] Beneath the floor at the south-east corner of the verandah of the monastery at a depth of about 6 feet below the level of the cloistered walk and again in one of the rooms on the south side still another pavement of lime-concrete was discovered as well as a couple of brick walls in the same corner. [...] The level of the last stratum in relation to the fifth (assigned on the evidence afforded by the copper-plate of Devapaladeva found here to approximately the ninth century A. D.) would seem to indicate independently a date of about the sixth or seventh century for the sixth stratum thus coully.ning that suggested by the style of the decorative panel in question. [...] Again in the same translation Yuan Chwang refers to the 700 years since the foundation of the establishment" (of the Nalanda monastery) ; and while I cannot find a parallel to this statement in the later work of Natters On Yuan Chwang both ratters and Beal agree as regards the passage recording that the monastery of Sakraditya was founded " not long after the decease of the.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
159
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Nalanda Excavations
1-22 J.A Page view
An Address on Indian Paintings
23-29 P.C Manuk view
A Hindu Text on Painting
30-39 K.P Jayaswal view
I.—Sanskrit Lexicography.
40-48 Ramavatara Sarma view
Bhasa: His Age and Magadhi
49-113 A Banerji, sastri view
Buddhist Iconography
114-117 Vinayatosha Bhattacharyya view
Exorcism in Chota Nagpur
118-139 Sarat Roy view
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Council of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society held at the Society's Office on the 15th April 1923.
140-143 E.A Horne view
Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society held on the 23rd March 1923 at 4-30 p.m. at Government House Patna
144-145 H Chand view
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Council of Bihar and Orissa Research Societyheld 011 the 1st March 1923 at 5 p.m at the Society's Office
146-147 H Chand view
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Council of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society held on the 22nd December 1922
148-152 H Chand view

Related Topics

All