Lauriya
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Lauria Nandangarth लौरिया नंदनगढ |
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| City/town | |
 Lauria Nandangarth
 Lauria Nandangarth
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| Coordinates: 26°59′0″N 84°24′0″E / 26.98333°N 84.40000°ECoordinates: 26°59′0″N 84°24′0″E / 26.98333°N 84.40000°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Bihar |
| District | West Champaran |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Maithili, Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 845453 |
| Nearest city | Bettiah |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bagha |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Lauriya Yogapatti |
Lauria Nandangarh is a City/town about 14 km from Shikarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and 28 km from Bettiah in West Champaran district of Bihar state in northern India. It is situated near the banks of the Burhi Gandak River. The village draws its name from a pillar (laur) of Ashoka standing there and the stupa mound Nandangarh (variant Nanadgarh) about 2 km south-west of the pillar. Lauriya Nandangarh is a historical site located in West Champaran district of Bihar. Remains of Mauryan period have been found here.
Lauriya has 15 Stupa mounds in three rows, each row upwards of 600 m; the first row begins near the pillar and goes E to W, while the other two are at right angles to it and parallel to each other.Alexander Cunningham partially excavated one of them in 1862 and found a retaining wall of brick (size 51 X 20 cm) which he regarded as late. A few years later Henry Bailey Wade Garrick excavated several mounds with indifferent results. In 1905 T. Block excavated four mounds, two in each of the N to S rows. In two of them, he found at the center of each, at a depth of "1.8 m to 3.6 m" (probably meaning 1.8 m in one and 3.6 m in the other) a gold leaf with a female figurine standing in frontal pose and a small deposit of burnt human bones mixed with charcoal. The core of the mounds was, according to him, built of layers of yellow clay, a few centimeters in thickness, with grass leaves laid between. Further down in one of them he found the stump of a tree. His conclusions were that the 'earthen barrows' had some connection with the funeral rites of the people who erected them, and he found an explanation of the phenomena encountered by him in the rites of cremation and post-cremation prescribed in the Vedas. On the basis of this hypothesis he identified the gold female figurine as the earth goddess Prithvi and ascribed the mounds to a pre-Mauryan age. After him the mounds came to be known loosely as "Vedic burial mounds". The locals call these mounds Bhisa, a word also recorded by Cunningham. Some believe that the 26 metre high ancient brick sepulchral mound is the stupa where the ashes of Lord Buddha were enshrined.
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