Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 >Priyadarshi Rajiv <rajiv >manthan (Manthan) >Manthan <manthan >[manthan] Underwater monastery found in Orissa >Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:05:51 -0800 (PST) > >************************************************************************ >manthan: Information Exchange Network for Intellectual Defense of Dharma >Sponsored By: Bharatvani - http://www.bharatvani.org >************************************************************************ > >Title: Underwater monastery found in Orissa >Author: >Publication: Deccan Herald >Jan. 18, 2004 >URL: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan182004/n1.asp > >The fresh discovery may give a boost to the school of history which argues >that Buddha was born in Orissa and not Nepal > >BHUBANESWAR, DHNS > >An underwater Buddhist monastery has been discovered in coastal Kendrapara >district of Orissa. > >A report from the district quoting a local historian and researcher, Dr >Harishchandra Prusty said the 29 by 29 metre monastery was unearthed on >Thursday last about eight feet underwater on the bed of the Govari rover >in Kantikiari village under Mahanga block of the district. > >According to Dr Prusty, he and his team discovered the site after a local >villager, Damodar Rout informed him about its presence. The 18-room >monastery has side and partition walls made of bricks. The bricks used in >the monastery are rare and had not been found in other Buddhist sites in >the state like Lalitagiri, Udaigir and Khandagari, the historian has been >quoted as saying. > >A number of other ancient articles have also been found from the site. >They included rock lamps and cooking pots. The discovery has once again >confirmed the spread of Buddhism in Orissa, Dr Prusty has said. > >The fresh discovery may give a boost to the scholars and historian who >have been claiming that Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born >at Kapileswar near Bhubaneswar, the Orissa capital and not at Kapilavastu >in Nepal as claimed by history books. > >During a national symposium on Buddhism in Orissa held here in November >last, a historian from neighbouring West Bengal, Dr Satyakam Sengupta and >his team had claimed that Gautama Buddha was born in the coastal Orissa >village. > >After 35 years of extensive research, we have found that Gautama Buddha >was born in Kapileswar village near Bhubaneswar and not at Kapilavastu in >Nepal, Dr Sengupta, a retired professor at Rabindra Bharati University, >had claimed. > >In support of his claim, Dr Sengupta had provided several evidences and >one among them was frequent discovery of Buddhist sites and monuments in >the eastern state. A number of Buddhists sites have already been >discovered in Orissa whereas Nepal has hardly any such important >historical sites to suggest that Buddhism was widespread there, the >researcher had observed. > >Following Dr Senguptas claim, the Orissa government had announced to set >up a special team consisting of historians and researchers from Orissa >University of Culture for further research on the subject. >************************************************ >Manthan is a moderated, by invitation only list. >Listowner: owner-manthan >************************************************ > _______________ High-speed users—be more efficient online with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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