Vol-6 Number-1 January 2021
Chief Editor: Vijay Kumar
Publisher: National Trust for Promotion of Knowledge, Lucknow
Mode of Publication: Online (e-Journal)
This article by Amit Jain describes the newly acquired twenty copper hoard weapons and implements by Shahjad Rai Research Institute, Baraut District Baghpat U.P. These include flat celts, harpoons, chisel, sword, axe, currier's knife and thin copper strips. The most remarkable tool in this collection is a currier's knife from district Ludhiana Punjab. It indicates that leather workers who plied their trade during Chalcolithic period used this tool made of copper. This is definitive evidence of leather working as important economic activity during Chalcolithic period.
This site has been excavated by time to time by different archaeologists. The results of excavations of this site were published by M. M. Nagar in 1956-57 and 1958. L. M. Wahal explored this site and published his results in 1962. This site was again excavated from 1973 to 1978 by Hemraj. First and third author of this paper excavated this site between years 2006-2010. The site has yielded antiquities from BRW, PGW, NBP, Shunga, Kushan, Gupta, Post-Gupta and Medieval period. This paper by Ram Vinay, A. K. Singh & N. S. Tyagi is the catalogue of coin hoard of 778 imperial Magadha punch marked coins which were found hidden in a typical NBP vase at Jajmau district Kanpur U.P. These coins belong to Mauryan period and were probably hidden during that period only
This article by Vijay Kumar, Alok Ranjan, Mohd. Tarique Rasool, Krishnamurthy, Aditya Kumar Singireddy, Rajesh Kannojiya and Sumit Kumar gives the catalogue of seals & sealings presently kept in State Museum, Lucknow U.P. The museum houses total 618 seals & sealings. Out of these 110 contained Buddhist formula, 51 have impressions of Buddhist deities and 26 have Persian inscriptions. The remaining seal/ sealings contain miscellaneous legends and devices. These are dateable from 2nd century B.C. to 10th century A.D.
This paper by Alok Ranjan & Amit Jain gives the details of fifteen sealings kept in Shahjad Rai Research Institute, Baraut district Baghpat U.P. The three oldest sealings of this collection are dateable to Mauryan period. One is dateable to Shunga period. The most interesting seal in this collection is one multi-faceted grey colored sealing obtained from Chandraketugarh district Berachampa, West Bengal belonging to Mauryan period which has few letters/words/symbols stamped on fourteen different facets. It mentions a fleet of merchant ships. Many of these sealings have the Buddhist formula: Yē Dhammā hētu prabhavō hētu teshāô tathāgatō hyavada teshām cha yo nirōdha evaṁ vādī mahāśramaṇaḥ.
This paper by Ayeshi Biyanwila explores the elements of Indian Influences in Gandhara Art, which existed in ancient North-West India. Gandhara Art is a form of art which is widely being referred to as of Greek origin. The study of the Gandharan geography and its political history provide many reasons for such assumptions. Thus this form of art had been also called Graeco-Buddhist art by the scholars of the colonial era. The purpose of this paper is to find out if Gandhara art was devoid of any Indian artistic influences. This is highly unlikely and the paper will show the Indian artistic influences on Gandhara art refuting the idea of exclusivity of “Greekness” in the Gandhara School of art. The paper will discuss several reliefs found from the Gandhara region and the artistic analysis on them would prove the presence of prominent artistic influence of Indian art
This paper by Vijay Kumar gives the detailed catalogue of sculptural and architectural remains scattered on the ground and fixed in the wall of Sursari Ganga tank. The temple building activity was started around this tank during late 9th-10th century A.D. Later on the temples were constructed during 10th-11th and 11th-12th century A.D. After this, the sculptural fragments dateable to 20th century A.D. are found. It appears that from 12th-19th century A.D., there was no temple building activity around this area. The only structures made in this period are of two domed structures with tapering walls a characteristic feature of late Sultanate period.
This paper by Maruti Nandan Pd. Tiwari and Shanti Swaroop Sinha gives the details of antiquities found in excavations at Babhinayav village by Prof. Onkar Nath Singh (Head of Department) and Prof. Ashok Kumar Singh in 2020. Ekmukhi Shivalinga of Gupta period was discovered at this site. This paper also describes the details of images and architectural fragments lying in Mahavan village, which the two authors visited during the same period. These images, belonging to Pratihara period (8th to 10th century CE), are so far unpublished and suggest that during early medieval period (8th -10th cent. CE), this area was under the political control of the Gurjara-Pratihara rulers. The Pratihara images from above villages are especially important because in the city of Varanasi, we find merely one Chaumukhi image of Pratihara period showing Uma-Maheshvara, Surya, Shakti and Ganesha on its four sides. This Chaumukhi is found and preserved at Lolark-kund near Bhadaini in Varanasi
This article by M. K. Pundhir describes the details of Tomb of Mir Jumla, who was the Mughal noble during the first quarter of eighteenth century. His original name was Abdullah and he was a Turanian Mulla. He came to India during the reign of Aurangzeb who appointed him as Qazi of Jahangirnagar/ Dacca in the suba of Bengal first and then he was shifted to Azimabad i.e Patna in the same capacity. He had a chequered political career. He died in the early period of Muhammad Shah. The Tomb of Mir Jumla is a double storey tomb built on square plan. Its inner space is organized on modified noni partite plan or hasht bihist plan. In this plan the space is arranged into nine chambers where a central chamber is surrounded by four corner rooms and four cardinal chambers. Here a modification has been introduced i.e. corner and cardinal chambers are connected with arch way in the form of corridor surrounding the central chamber. The central chamber is square. The central chamber is equipped with four entrances at the cardinal points which connect it with cardinal chambers. These entrances are built in the form of arched way. The ceiling of the central chamber is coved. To form the concave ceiling, the square shape of the chamber is converted into circle with the application of the phase of transition. In this chamber corbelling is used to achieve the stages of the phase of transition. Inner surfaces of the chamber are veneered with red sand stone engraved with panels.
This article by Sheikh Saud uz Zaman @ Saadi Zaman & Sayed Ahmad Maghrabi @ Munne Maghribi traces the history of buildings constructed by Nawabs of Banda were descendants of Peshwa Bajirao I and Kunwar Mastani Ju Sahiba. Nawab Ali Bahadur I constructed Baradari, Hamam and Royal Graveyard/ Imambara mosque. Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Bahadur constructed Antaghar, Jama Masjid, Travelers Inn (Sarai), Nazarbagh mansion, Maghribi Sahib's mansion, Nawab tank and Idris Maghribi's Tomb. Nawab Ali Bahadur II constructed the Kankar Mahal. The authors also give the historical sketch of the time of Nawabs of Banda
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