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Station on Chandosi – Bareilly Line, vehicle of Kshetra and other vehicles are available. Road: - Buses are available from Delhi, Meerut, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kasganj & Badaun. Train: - Trains are available from Delhi, Bareilly, Agra, Moradabad, Aligarh to Revati Bahoda
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culture sites. Evidence of construction of early fortifications were discovered around 1000 BC indicating first urban development. Near
Ahichchhatra, 2 km to its west there is a big pond which is said to trace its ancestry to the time of Mahabharata. The pond, located in the village of
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in 1871, and then excavated by the ASI from 1940 for "about five years". The excavations found brick fortifications and continuity of occupation from a period before 600 BCE to 1100 CE. During the first excavations in 1940–44, the
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imagery of IRS (Indian Remote
Sensing) satellites. The ruins reveal that the city had a triangular shape. Recent excavations in Ahichchhatra showed it was first inhabited by the middle of the second millennium BC with
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of the early centuries CE, have been made at the site and are now in various museums. Excavations have uncovered nine strata, the lowest from before the 3rd century BCE and the latest from the 11th century CE.
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Most of the city was half a mile north-east of the modern village, with a large mound, popularly called the fort, two miles west of this. Several significant finds of sculpture, in both stone and (especially)
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Nainital – 180 km
Hastinapur Atishaya Kshetra – 200 km Kampilji Atishaya Kshetra – 180 km Manglayatan (Aligarh) – 180 km Bareilly – 55 km
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In the early Gupta period a section of the city set aside for pottery contained very large firing pits, some 10 or 12 feet deep.
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Khera
Station and vehicles are all time available for Ramnagar from Revati Bahoda Khera Station. Airport: - Delhi 250 km
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at various periods, and in the early CE the temples were decorated with unusually large terracotta
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pottery were found at the earliest level. Ruins of this city could be identified from the
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604:(omniscience). The temples in Ahichchhatra are built to commemorate
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seated facing on pedestal, holding bifurcated object.
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33:One of the Shiva temple ruins at Ahichhatra .
484:, after which Panchala was annexed into the
476:The last independent ruler of Ahichatra was
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882:, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, p.473
843:Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography
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934:What lies Beneath, B. R. Mani 2013
880:Political History of Ancient India
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518:culture people, followed by
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878:Raychaudhuri, H.C. (1972).
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1119:Uttar Pradesh Tourism.
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1092:"Uttar Pradesh: A to Z"
1090:Uttar Pradesh Tourism.
840:Kapoor, Subodh (2002).
552:A bronze currency of ½
377:was a region of Nagas.
65:Shown within South Asia
1046:Jain, Lakshmi (2008).
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1085:Uttar Pradesh Tourism
904:Lahiri, Bela (1972).
809:"Brochure Ahicchatra"
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610:Kēvalajñāna kalyāṇaka
600:of Jainism, attained
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761:978-81-7335-498-4
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566:Dimensions:
496:Archaeology
466:Idramitrasa
430:Ahi-chhatra
428:as well as
426:Ahikshetras
407:, the 23rd
374:Ahi-kshetra
305:Mahabharata
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178:c. 1500 BCE
149: /
125:Coordinates
1172:Categories
1076:8120800265
1017:0391022342
1002:References
608:attaining
598:Tirthankar
554:karshapana
409:Tirthankar
313:terracotta
265:अहिक्षेत्र
257:Ahikshetra
251:Ahicchatra
214:terracotta
137:79°08′10″E
134:28°22′16″N
965:Jain 2008
339:The word
275:Ahikṣetra
241:अहिच्छत्र
1141:20 April
825:20 April
353:Sanskrit
301:Panchala
281:Ramnagar
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183:Cultures
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457:Indra
438:Drona
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357:Nagas
345:snake
335:Names
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119:India
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