{"id":22184,"date":"2024-04-05T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22184"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:29:54","slug":"sannati-bhuddist-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sannati-bhuddist-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Sannati Bhuddist site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sannati Buddhist site:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0ancient\u00a0<strong>Buddhist site\u00a0<\/strong>on the bank of\u00a0<strong>Bhima river<\/strong>\u00a0near Kanaganahalli (forming part of Sannati site) in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka.\u00a0It is also popular among tourists for the\u00a0<strong>Chandrala Parameshwari Temple.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Major findings in this site:\n<ul>\n<li>It is believed to have been developed in three constructional phases \u2013\u00a0<strong>Maurya, Early Satavahana and Later Satavahana<\/strong>\u00a0periods stretching from 3rd Century B.C. to 3rd Century A.D.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ranamandala<\/strong>\u00a0area of Sannati offers a unique chronological scale from\u00a0<strong>prehistoric to early historic times<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>An\u00a0<strong>inscription<\/strong>\u00a0written in the Prakrit language using the Brahmi script is also found here.<\/li>\n<li>The excavation also recovered another precious stone of historical importance \u2013 a stone\u00a0<strong>sculpture<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>portraying Mauryan Emperor Ashoka<\/strong>. The emperor is seen\u00a0surrounded by his queens and female attendants in this rare sculpture.\u00a0The sculpture had the words\u00a0<strong>\u201cRaya Asoko<\/strong>\u201d etched on it in\u00a0<strong>Brahmi script<\/strong>\u00a0leaving little scope for mistaking the identity of the man featured in it.<\/li>\n<li>The recoveries included around 60 dome slabs with sculptural renderings of selected\u00a0<strong>Jataka stories<\/strong>, main events in the life of the Master, portraits of Shatavahana monarchs and certain unique depictions of Buddhist missionaries sent by Ashoka to different parts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The site of ancient\u00a0<strong>Nagavi Ghatikasthana<\/strong>, which was often termed the Takshashila of the South by historians, is around 40 km away from Sannati.<\/li>\n<li>The Ghatikasthana, which had the status of a present-day university, was a major education hub during rulers of the Rashtrakuta and Kalyana Chalukya dynasties between the 10th and 12th Centuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are the Jataka tales?<\/h3>\n<p>These are a large collection of Buddhist morality stories in which the Buddha recounts some of his past lives on his long road to enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/nuggets-of-history-from-sannati-village-in-kalaburagi-district\/article68027373.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nuggets of history from Sannati village in Kalaburagi district<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sannati Bhuddist site is the ancient Buddhist site on the bank of Bhima river near Kanaganahalli (forming part of Sannati site) in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22184","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\/22184","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=22184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}