{"id":8700,"date":"2022-10-01T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:05:07","slug":"buddhist-caves-in-bandhavgarh-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/buddhist-caves-in-bandhavgarh-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist caves in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The 26 caves that were found are associated with the Mahayana sect of Buddhism.<\/li>\n<li>These date back to the same time as the Ajanta caves in Aurangabad, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Besides the caves, the ASI team also found the remains of 26 temples, two mathas, two stupas, 46 idols and sculptures, 26 fragments and 19 water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>ASI also mentioned a Buddhist pillar fragment containing a miniature stupa carving, dating to the 2nd-3rd century CE, and 24 Brahmi inscriptions from the 2nd-5th century CE.<\/li>\n<li>The temples are from more recent times \u2014 the Kalachuri period (9th-11th century), while the water bodies range between 2nd-15th centuries CE.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The places Kaushami, Mathura, Pavata (Parvata), Vejabharada and Sapatanaairikaa are mentioned in the Brahmini inscriptions, while the inscribed names of kings include Shri Bhimsena, Maharaja Pothasiri and Bhattadeva.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bandhavgarh was declared a national park in 1968 and became a tiger reserve in 1993.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Tala, Khitauli and Magadhi comprise the three main zones of the national park, which together cover an area of 716 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/significance-of-archaeological-survey-of-indias-recent-findings-in-the-bandhavgarh-tiger-reserve-8182735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Buddhist Caves discovered dating back to 2nd and 5th centuries,pertaining to Mahayana sect of Buddhism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8700","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\/8700","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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}