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लउरिया नन्दनगढ़
Lauriya, West Champaran, Bihar · 26.9985°, 84.4085°
A Mauryan site in West Champaran with fifteen stupa mounds in three rows and a ten-metre polished sandstone Ashokan pillar crowned by a lion and carrying Brahmi edicts. Excavations by Cunningham, Bloch and Majumdar recovered figurines, pottery and, inside a miniature stupa, a birch-leaf manuscript of Buddhist text.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Some hold that the 26 m brick mound is the stupa in which the Buddha's ashes were enshrined.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Maurya
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