Patna, or Pataliputra the city that was established by Magadh ruler Ajatshatru on the banks of stream Ganga, the core of the realm of Ashoka.
The present-day capital of the province of Bihar is a fascinating blend of a city in with a great past. The one that is decidedly looking toward a splendid future. Old explorers like Fa-Hein called it the city worked by supernatural people and Megasthenes has expounded extravagantly on its castle.
Be that as it may, when Huan-Tsang arrived at Patna, he could make reference to its past greatness. As a 21st CE voyager, I could see a legacy city that has its eyes solidly on the future yet a city that is as yet grounded in its foundations and doesn’t appear to be following the west wildly.
Patna Museum
Holding the bits of its past is the city Museum, presumably quite possibly of the most extravagant exhibition hall concerning archeological legacy in the country. As you enter the exhibition hall, the sparkling sculpture of Didarganj Yakshi or the Chawri (whisk) conveyor invites you.
One can be totally awed by it. The life-size symbol of a lady wearing weighty Jewelry and simply the lower piece of clothing, with hair conveniently tied at the back with a speed in one and the other hand broken stands tall before you. You can essentially respect the craftsman who might have made this.
You immediately grieve the deficiency of other such valuable icons that have been lost over the long run. I contemplated whether the whisk conveyor is so gorgeous, envision how the person who is being whisked would be.
Just by the side of the Yakshi, you can likewise see the main Digambar Jain picture, a naked male middle found at Lohanipur. There is the earliest picture of Shalbhanjika with Mauryan clean. A lot additional fortunes from the third BCE to the eleventh CE that you can respect.
There are pictures from each of the three essential religions that prospered in this piece of the country viz Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. A portion of the Buddhist or Jain pictures showing the stomping on of Hindu gods let us know that times were not as quiet. Individuals were not quite so open-minded as we believe them to be today. We were fortunate to have a researcher as our aide and he clarified for us every one of the figures exhaustively.
Buddha Relics
The most praised piece of the exhibition hall is the Buddha relics that are kept here and making it a position of journey for Buddhists. The relics are kept in outright security and you need to purchase an extra pass to see them. The Bronze exhibition has the absolute greatest bits of Bronze that have been found from the pre-notable times. The Terracotta exhibition has little earthenware pictures from Harappan times to Kushan-Shunga period, including the Mauryan time frame. The pictures give a ton of bits of knowledge into the ways of life of the ordinary citizens and the loved figures like a mother goddess.
There are things of ordinary use, toys, Jewelry, seals and ceramics with basic mathematical plans on them. It is astounding how a total articulation with headgear and dress is communicated in a little sculpture of 2-4 inches. There is a display of Buddhist or Thangka compositions. There is a fossil tree estimating 53 ft viewed as one of the longest of its sort. Rajendra exhibition shows the individual effects of Dr. Rajendra Prasad who hailed from the city. We missed viewing the Kalam display and the exhibition of archaic artworks. The historical center is a genuinely very much kept up with building, however the presentations can be given better lighting and more clarification.
Agam Kuan
The Agam Kuan is an old well that is said to exist since the hour of Ashoka. He should have killed his 99 siblings and tossed their bodies in this quite well. Today, the well has high red-shaded walls. You can see within just through little windows made in the high wall. There is a Sheetla Devi sanctuary just by the well and it is said that clerics or Brahmins used to involve this well for ceremonies. They additionally said that it is difficult to empty out the water of this well and any individual who attempts to do so will be obliterated.
One of local people let us know that the previous boss priest of state Lalu Yadav had attempted to discharge this well to let down the Brahmins. In any case, couldn’t void it and from that day his ruin began. Presently, Is this not the way that the narratives were made and passed on orally?
Kumhrar
Kumhrar is where the sabha or get-together corridor of Chandragupta I and ruler Ashoka was. The 80-pillared corridor is the one that specialists say has been referenced in the Sabha Parva of Mahabharata. At this point, you can see just the spot it was and you need to utilize your creative mind to envision the magnificence that spot would have seen.
There is an exhumed support point set there and you can appreciate the cleanness of the half-broken point of support. At some distance, there is a removal that shows the religious community cum clinic of the well-known doctor of Gupta period Dhanvantari, properly called Arogyavihar. Evidently, there was an engraving telling this. At this point, you can see the remains of the spot having a few little rooms, envisioning anything over that is unimaginable.
To make the feeling the religious community is currently encircled by a very much kept up with the home-grown garden. There is a little site exhibition hall, which we were unable to see since there was n power and it was totally dull.
Patna Sahib Gurudwara
Gurudwara Patna Sahib, the origination of the tenth Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, is a serene island amidst a generally turbulent area of the city. Like most other renowned Gurudwara’s, this was additionally worked by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, on the banks of Ganga. Other than Guru Gobind Singh who spent his initial a very long time here, Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Tegh Bahadur likewise visited Patna. Master Nanak Dev had remained at this very put while heading to Gaya thus did Guru Tegh Bahadur. This is one of the five Takhts or blessed seats of Sikhs.
Inherent all white, the common shade of Gurudwaras, the spot abruptly makes you snap what is outside and spotlight within. The light reflection music playing will assist you with associating with yourself. Also, obviously, the Kadha Prasad that you get from here is something amazing. Only neighboring the Patna Sahib Gurudwara is an old Jain sanctuary that is by and by being remodeled. In the stopgap sanctuary, we could see a few old icons of different Jain Tirthankaras.
Khuda Bakhsh Library
One of the pearls that we found in the city was the Khuda Bakhsh Library. The library has in excess of 21000 oriental original copies and 2.5 million books. It has been available to general society for over 120 years. It is a forward-looking library as it is digitizing every one of its resources.
We got an extremely fresh show from the administration of the library that exhibited the genealogy of the library, the sort of resources it has, and a brief look at them. The distribution division has a ton of distributions that provide you with the historical backdrop of the district. Furthermore, considerations of the popular scholars of the area.
The library has a perusing room that is by all accounts extremely famous. It was a sheer joy to see a portion of the deep-rooted manually written original copies. There is liberal utilization of gold and most scripts we saw were multilingual. It made me contemplate the advancement of books.
To begin with, there were pictures, then, at that point, pictures and verse, then, at that point, pictures and words. And afterward just words. Presently we are by all accounts returning to the mix of pictures and words. However, the innovation is totally not the same as our motorized composition, painting, and printing procedures.
