Deulghata: The Hidden Temples of Purulia 😍🥰🤩| पुरुलिया के छिपे हुए मंदिर | Incredible India | скачать в хорошем качестве

Deulghata: The Hidden Temples of Purulia 😍🥰🤩| पुरुलिया के छिपे हुए मंदिर | Incredible India |

Deulghat, a place near Boram in Arsha PS. It has the ruins of 15 temples near the Kansai River. The stucco decoration is the notable architecture made on the temple. The entrances of those temples are entangled with the branches of trees, casting an eerie. However these temples are the representations of the age, when they were built. The excellent skills are evident in the wreckage of the temples and idols reflect strong evidences of SEN & PAL empires. Moreover the temples adorned with the graceful carve, attracts visitors, and hence are important in the tourism of Purulia. How to Reach: By Air The nearest Airport to Purulia is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata which is about 250 km to Purulia. From there, you can take bus or train to Purulia. By Train Rail distance of Purulia from Kolkata is 322 km. Purulia Railway station is present in the Purulia town which is managed by the South Eastern Railways and is on the Adra-Tata Nagar rail route. Trains from Kolkata are available for Purulia on regular basis. Some of these trains are Chakradharpur Express(18011), Rupasibangla Exp (12883), Howrah Purulia Exp (12827) etc. The minimum time a train takes to reach Purulia from Kolkata is 5h 25m. By Road It is well connected by road with Kolkata and surrounding towns like Bankura, Asansol, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Ranchi and other parts of the state. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jainism in Purulia Purulia is in the Chotanagpur plateau, which stretches across parts of present-day South Bihar, Jharkhand and the Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal. In olden times, this area was known as Rarh Pradesh. The Acharang Sutra, a Jain text from the 3rd or 2nd century BCE – the oldest text in the Jain canon –mentions that Mahavira visited Rarh Pradesh, and was treated with hostility by local residents. Another important canonical Jain text, the Bhagavati Sutra, mentions that Mahavira spent a considerable amount of time at Panit Bhumi in Rarh Pradesh, as Purulia was then known. Around 1078 CE, the region came under the rule of King Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva, ruler of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty of Odisha. This was Jainism’s Golden Age. Though a Shaivite himself, King Anantavarman was a great patron of Jainism and built a number of Jain temples around his second capital of Ambikanagar, in Bankura, about 120 km from Deulghata. His successors continued their patronage and, as a result, a large number of magnificent Jain temples were built between Bankura and Purulia between the 11th and 12th centuries. Though very little research has been done on the Deulghata temples, they are believed to have been built during this period. The Discovery of Deulghata Forgotten by the wider world for centuries, the ancient site of Deulghata was rediscovered and first documented in 1864-65 by Colonel E T Dalton, the British commissioner for Chotanagpur, which fell within the then Bengal Presidency. In his article, Notes On A Tour In Maunbhoom In 1864-65, published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1866, Dalton said, “Some four miles south of the town of Jaipore on the right bank of the Cossai river, near the village of Boram, are three very imposing looking brick temples rising amidst heaps of debris of other ruins, roughly cut and uncut stones and bricks… These three temples are all of the same type, and are no doubt correctly ascribed by the people to the ‘Swaraks’ or ‘Jains’.” Later, when noted archaeologist J D Beglar of the Archaeological Survey of India visited the site, he also mentioned in his Report Of A Tour Through The Bengal Provinces, Volume VIII, 1872-1873 the presence of three major brick temples and ruins of some stone-built temples. He also identified three idols – a four-armed Parvati, a Ganesha and an eight-armed Durga slaying the demon Mahishasur. Beglar also discovered a rounded stone slab with inscriptions on it, on a low mound. He believed that the mound had been the site of a brick temple dating back to the 9th or 10th century, thus giving the temples of Deulghata a timeline. The idols were of a later date, in keeping with the fact that, following the decline of Jainism in the 12th century, most Jain temples in Purulia were converted into Hindu shrines. The Building Blocks The temples were made of two kinds of brick – one measuring 18” x 12” x 2.5” and the other 9”x 12” x 2.5”. At close quarters, as Dalton had said, they looked as if they were made by a machine, because of their perfect shape, smooth surface and sharp edges. The designs on the temples’ walls were also executed almost entirely with brick, with stucco work in some portions only. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAI HIND JAI BHARAT