{"id":19463,"date":"2024-01-18T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19463"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:12:30","slug":"vadnagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vadnagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Vadnagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Vadnagar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vadnagar\u00a0is a town and municipality in the Mehsana district of the North Gujarat region\u00a0of Gujarat state.<\/li>\n<li>It is a multi-layered and\u00a0multi-cultural mercantile settlement, with its\u00a0history stretching back to nearly\u00a08<sup>th<\/sup> Century BCE.<\/li>\n<li>As a historical city, it was\u00a0known by various names, such as\u00a0Vridhanagar, Anandapur, Anartapur, and Nagar.<\/li>\n<li>The town represents a\u00a0continuously evolving historic urban landscape\/area that played a\u00a0major role in the hinterland\u00a0trade network of Western India.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0mentioned often in the Puranas\u00a0and even in the travelogue of\u00a0the great Chinese traveler, Hieu-en-Tsang (7th century), as a rich and flourishing town.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0ancient town of Vadnagar\u00a0is an L-shaped town\u00a0with Sharmishtha Lake located on\u00a0its northeastern edge.<\/li>\n<li>The whole ancient town of Vadnagar is\u00a0built over an ancient mound. The topography of the\u00a0mound is gently rising, with\u00a0its highest point\u00a0in the middle of the settlement, also called\u00a0Darbar Ghat.<\/li>\n<li>Vadnagar town is\u00a0divided into several blocks, also\u00a0called Mohallas or Madhs. These mohallas are\u00a0named after a temple, a community, or an occupation.<\/li>\n<li>The town\u2019s\u00a0fortifications, arched gateways (toranas), temples, wells, residential structures (kothis),\u00a0and excavated sites like\u00a0Buddhist monasteries and dedicated\u00a0stupas showcase the architectural influence of various cultural periods.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0oldest temple, Ambaji Mata Temple, dates back to the\u00a010th-11<sup>th<\/sup> Century CE,\u00a0while other important Hindu and Jain temples within the town are from 17<sup>th<\/sup> Century onward.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0current residential layer of the town\u00a0is from late Gaekwad period (late 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century CE).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Vadnagar town is\u00a0surrounded by forti\ufb01cations made of bricks\u00a0and partly\u00a0stone, covering an area of 1km east-west and 700 m north-south.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Puranas?<\/h3>\n<p>The Puranas are religious texts composed in Sanskrit, orally narrated for centuries before being written down from the 2nd century CE onwards. They are part of the sacred literature of the Hindu faith that also comprises the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aryayankas, Upanishads, and the great epics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/remains-of-2800-years-old-human-settlement-800-bc-found-vadnagar-pm-modi-native-village-gujarat-2489637-2024-01-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Remains of 2,800-year-old settlement found in PM Modi&#8217;s village in Gujarat<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vadnagar is a town and municipality in the Mehsana district of the North Gujarat region of Gujarat state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}