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BIHAR Bhagalpur BHAGALPUR a city in India, in Bihar state. It is capital of Bhagalpur district The city is situated on the
Ganges River, 120 miles southeast of Patna. Bhagalpur is a road and railroad
junction and the trading center for a fertile area in which rice, wheat, corn,
barley, oilseeds, and sugarcane are the chief corps. The city has rice and sugar
mills, and silk- and wool- weaving factories , and it is a distribution center
for hemp narcotics. A silk culture institute and an agricultural research
station are located there.
Ancient cave sculptures dating from the reign of the Emperor Ashoka (about 274-
232 B.C) are found in the neighborhood, and 5 miles west of the city, at
Sultanganj is an early temple of the Gupta period of architecture ( about 320-
500 A.D.)
Bhagalpur, city, eastern Bihar state, northeastern India, just south of the
Ganges River. The city has major road and rail connections and trades in
agricultural produce and cloth. Major industries include rice and sugar milling
and woolen weaving.
Bhagalpur is also noted for its silk production. A sericulture institute and an
agricultural-research station have been established, and the city is the seat of
Bhagalpur University (1960). Formerly called Sujanganj, Bhagalpur was
constituted a municipality in 1864.
The surrounding region includes an alluvial plain in the north and forested
uplands of the Chota Nagpur Plateau to the south. The Ganges and Chandan rivers
drain the area. Grains and oilseeds are the principal crops; china clay,
fireclay, and mica deposits are worked. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 254,993.
What To See Mandar Hill : A small hill about 30 km from
Bhagalpur is a good sightseeing. Every year on 14 Jan there is a very big fair
on the occasion of Makar Sankarnti. This hill is the very same hill which was
used for the Sagar Manthan. You can see the marks of the snake around the hill
used for mathan. Foot prints of Lord Vishnu can also be seen on this hill. The
most attracting feature of the hill is the lake at its peak. This place can be
reached by a taxi or by train (thrice a day from Bhagalpur Jn).
Vikramashila : Founded in the latter part of the
eight century A.D by Dharmapala, the Buddhist University of Vikramashila is
loacted at the famous Patharghat Hill on the right bank of the Ganga, about 38
kilometers to the southeast of Bhagalpur. No early account of this monastic
university is however, extant, nor has it been mentioned in Pali or Sanskrit
literature. All that is know about it today is that it was patronized by the
Pala Kings who helped the University of Nalanda too, though not on the same
scale as they did in the case of Vikramashila. For a number of years this
university was a well known center of Tantricism. The university was destroyed
before A.D 1206.
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