Gaya Museum Alias Bodhgaya Museum

Location: Situated in the heart of the town of Gandhi Maidan, Gaya.Gaya Museum- Gaya, 206 km from Patna, is an ancient Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site. On view are ancient sculptures, bronzes and terracotta. There is a section on numismatics, the decorative arts, paintings, manuscripts, arms and armoury, geology and natural history.

Gaya, 206 Km from Patna is an ancient Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site.It is believed that Vishnu’s sacred footprint is preserved in the vishnupad temple. On view are ancient sculptures ,bronzes and terracotta. There is a section on numismatics, the decorative arts, paintings ,manuscripts ,arms and armoury, geology and natural history. The children’s section includes a dolls house. 

Importance: The museum has been declared as Gaya Museum-cum-Magadh Cultural Centre with a view to collect, display and make available all the relevant information regarding living cultural heritage of the region under one roof.
The museum preserves about 2000 antiquities of varied nature. The rich collection of stone sculptures especially of Pala period is rare and outstanding. Besides, the Museum also possesses a good collection of coins of different periods (punch marked to medieval period coins), manuscripts, terracotta figurines ranging right from Mauryan to the Gupta period, Pala bronzes and other art objects. Among the important antiquities mention may be made of Visnu, danching Ganesha, Tara, Surya in stone, replica of Mahabodhi temple in bronze and Aa-ne-Akabari. The special attractions here are monuments of Pala period (750-1120 BC).
Besides these, there are coins of ancient times till Mughal era, old manuscripts, monuments from Mauryan to Gupta period, stone and bronze statues at the Gaya Musuem.
The museum was established in 1952 by a local lawyer Baldev Prasad, and was later acquired by the Bihar government and opened for public viewing on February 14, 1970. 

The museum was established in the year 1956. The museum consists of two galleries and an open courtyard as well as two verandahs displaying the antiquities. The museum exhibits bronze and stone sculptures of Buddhist and Brahmanical faith of pala period, scenes related to Buddhist pantheon, Surya, Zodiac signs on railings of Sunga age, etc.

The first gallery exhibits sculptures including standing Yakshi figure having elaborate coiffure, crowned Buddha in Bhumisparsamudra, Maiterya, images of Buddha in different attitude, standing image of Manjusri, terracotta plaque depicting Buddha in Bhumisparshmudra, railing pillar depicting Surya, panel showing Sahasra Buddha, copper antimony rod, miniature pot, etc.

In second gallery are exhibited sculptures associated with Buddhist and Brahmanical faith. Among them mention may be made of panel showing Sapta matrika, Dikpalas, Dasavatara of Lord Vishnu.

The courtyard of the museum contains railing pillars, cross bars and coping stones which were shifted from Mahabodhi temple premises to the museum.

In outer verandah of the museum one colossal image of standing Buddha in abhayamudra and the varaha incarnation of Lord Vishnu is on display in the inner verandah.

Summary
District – Gaya
Commissionery – Magadh
Headquarter – Gaya
Sub-Division – Gaya Sadar, Sherghati, Tekari
Population – 26, 64,803 (27 Lacs)
Area – 4,941 Sq. Km
Sea Level – 113 Meter
Temperature –
Summer: 46°C – 18°C
Winter: 20°C– 4°C
Best Season – November – February
Road Route – 112 Km from Patna
Rail Route – Main Railway Station – Patna, Gaya
Nearest Railway Station – Gaya (16 Km),
(458 km from Kolkata; 220 km from Varanasi; 589 km from Puri)
Air Route – Main Airport – Patna
Nearest Airport – Gaya

Know about Patna Museum – Bihar

Patna Museum is the state museum of the Indian state of Bihar. Built in 1917 during the British Raj to house the historical artefacts found in the vicinity of Patna,it is in the style of Mughal and Rajput architecture and is known locally as the Jadu Ghar.
Patna Museum

Location of Patna
in Bihar, India

Open: 10.30 am- 4.30 pm
Days: Tues- Sun 

Items on display in the multipurpose museum include archaeological objects, coins, art objects, paintings, instruments, textiles, paintings, thankas, bronze images, and sculptures and terra cotta images by Hindu and Buddhist artists.[1] It has a rare collection of British-period paintings depicting day-to-day life, as well as a fine collection related to the first President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

The fossil of a tree said to be more than 200 million years old is on display, as is a casket — unearthed in 1958 by archaeologist A. S. Altekar at the Relic Stupa of Vaishali — said to contain the sacred ashes (relics) of Gautama Buddha. The world-famous Didarganj Yakshi statue, discovered on a Ganges riverbank in 1917, is the museum’s most prized collection.

Beginning November 2009, a project was started to build a replacement museum in Patna to enable the display of larger collections of up to 20,000 objects.

This excellent museum contains metal and stone sculptures dating to the Mauryan and Gupta periods, terracotta figures and archaeological finds from sites in Bihar such as Nalanda. It is a destination that is worth your luxury or cheap flights to India because of its rich history and cultural treasures. The Patna Museum also houses the world’s longest fossilized tree -16m long and 200 million years old. There is a fine collection of Chinese paintings and thangkas.

Patna Museum was established in the year 1917. The aim behind the establishment of the museum was to impart a scientific vision to understand the evolution of history, culture and art tradition of the land. Patna archaeological museum boasts a huge collection of artifacts found during the excavations of ancient sites in Bihar.

Patna museum has a large collection of sculptures of the Gandhara and the Mathura style art. These sculptures belong to the Kushana period. The Gandhar style sculptures, also known as ‘Greeco-Buddhist Art’ are made of blue-schist of Swat valley and the collection includes figures of Buddha. Other than Lord Buddha, several statutes of Bodhisattvas have also been kept in the Patna Museum. Patna Museum preserves holy relic casket of Lord Buddha containing his ashes.

Patna Museum houses many historic items found during excavations in different parts of Bihar. Some belong to the pre-historic phase and some are from early centuries of first millennium. Post-excavation, archeologists found many things including some historic objects, stone sculptures, bronzes, terracotta, paintings – miniature and thanka paintings and coins, which all are important to know the history and development of Bihar.

The museum at Patna has some pre-historic objects of great interest including of Palaeoliths, microliths and neoliths. These objects were found from different parts of India. Certain objects like Paleolithic tools found at Bariar (M.P.) and Lalitpur (U.P.), Attirampakkam (Tamilnadu) have also been kept in display in the museum.

The museum also displays sculptures from the Kushana period, which include the famous trio from Devangarh in the Nawada district. Three deities Ekanamsa, Balarama and Vasudeva have been separately depicted here which is unconventional and not found anywhere else. Other than these, the museum also has three images of Avalokitesvra, Maitreya and Buddha in bhumisparsh posture. These images were excavated from Vishnupur of Gaya districts. There are some door frames with the figures of Ganges and Yamuna depicted on the sides of them.


Patna Museum
Gautam Buddha
Gautam Buddha

Jharkhand Land Records Vasudha Registry Khasara Khata Khatauni & Dakhila Kharij (Mutation)

Largest IT sector Industry India which play more than 65% role in Universal IT filed one of the most fast developing and growing country who is making top place in front of other countries to make their information technology field stronger and easier for world. The India provides more than 30% IT engineers to world and the revolution is growing day par day like the fire. In this movement the country of India had also made stronger to their government with using of various kinds of IT and Internet facility. One of the step and part of Indian Information Technology Department which also knows as NIC with the full name of National Informatics Center is making new softwares and new website day by day with the less of new technology to build the Indian Govt stronger and transparent for their citizens.

A step and revolution also started in the Revenue department and NIC had tried to make this system more easy and citizens friendly. For that the NIC under the Govt and government of India had started to build unique software with the help of Revenue dept of each state. With the help of that anyone can get their Bhu Abhilekh / Bhulekh / Bhuabhilekh (भू अभिलेख / भूलेख / भूअभिलेख), Registry (रजिस्ट्री), Khasara Maanchitra (खसरा मानचित्र), Dakhila Kharij Mutation (दाखिला ख़ारिज), Revenue (मालगुजारी)

In this movement the revenue dept of Jharkhand had also got the software which is known as the name of VASUDHA (वसुधा) the meaning of Vasudha is Land, soil, ground, or earth. The Vasudha had made to provide oriented information system to all common users and citizens of Jharkhand. This software website has built for those citizens who are far from their area and want to get their Jharkhand land records, Jharkhand Bhu Lekh or Jharkhand Bhu Abhilekh (झारखण्ड भूलेख / भू अभिलेख). Also the common public person don’t have time to visit on their tehsil (तहसील) or they are not able to follow up with their Patwari (पटवारी) can use this Vasudha Software website. However we already know very well that when we visit to the tehsil what all we need to face at their. Sometimes the govt officers get lots of benefits from poor farmers and gave them wrong information about their Jharkhand Land Records Tehsil Wise or District Wise. Most of people had faced these kinds of problem as well that they have to waste their whole day on tehsil but still he didn’t have the information which he wants. So the Jharkhand govt and NIC unit of Jharkhand made this software with the help of all data which is available through their district and tehsil wise. Any of citizens who don’t want to visit to their tehsil can use this website all day in week along with any time of day.

What is Vasudha?
Vasudha is the information system which provides Negative and revenue (खतियान और मालगुजारी) information to common citizens (जनसाधारण) and land owners (भूमि-स्वामित्व) with all details of Khasara Naksha (खसरा नक्शों) with full 100 % transpiration. If any kind of information haven’t uploaded in Vasudha then it can be get from cyber café, your nearest office, or Zonal offices (अंचल कार्यालय) and Learning Centres (प्रज्ञा केन्द्रों). One side where the world is going high in the IT field the Jharkhand govt had also provided to the citizens all information about their property after breaking all the traditional barriers. Vasudha Jharkhand Land Records website is useful for all categories in society. With use of this website the investors and govt are able to make their quick decisions and able to take the required related actions through the portal.

How to Check Jharkhand Land Records (झारखण्ड भूलेख केसे प्राप्त करें) –
On the official website there are 5 parts see the below given part wise details from which you can get your Jharkhand Land Records and Bhu Abhilekh.

  • Get the Information for Khatiyan (खतियान जानकारी प्राप्त करें) –
  • With Reyat Number (रैयत का नाम) –
  • With Khasra number (खेसरा नम्बर)
  • Find Letters and Spelling (शब्द से खोजें)
  • Find the name in Reyat (रैयत का नाम से खोजें)

How to Get Jharkhand Map and Land Record Report (झारखण्ड मानचित्र और भू अभिलेख विवरण केसे प्राप्त करे) –
To get the Jharkhand land records Bhulekh you have to use your some of information about you and your property for which you want want to get details of your Jharkhand Land records. First go to the page of http://210.212.20.94/land/frmsearchkhatano.aspx where you will first have to select your District name then Anchal / Tehsil Name (अंचल / तहसील) and after that your village name. After all these process you will have to enter some information about you as per following on the page where you are stand right now:

  • Khata number (खता नंबर)
  • Name of Reyat (रैयत का नाम)
  • Category (जाति)
  • Address of Reyat (रैयत का पता)
  • Khasra Number (खेसरा नम्बर)
  • Total Numbers of Plots (कुल प्लॉटो की संख्या)
  • Population (आबाद डिसमील एकड़ में)
  • Non- Population (गैर अबाद क्षेत्रफल हेक्टर में)
  • Revenue Information (माल गुजारी रकम माल मोता बिक दफा ८५ अगर हो)
  • If you are under the Bengal Council of Act 6 under the Article 88 or 131 (१९०८ सन में बंगाल कौन्सिल के एक्ट ६ दफा ८८ और १३१ के मोताबिक इन्दराज, अगर कोई हो।)
  • Category of Land (दर्जा जमीन)
  • Taydad Kiyari (तायदाद कियारी)
  • Name of Land (नाम जमीन)
  • Important Rule (खास शर्त)
  • Boundary (चौहद्दी)

After filling all these information on the page of Vasudha Bhu Abhilekh you need to click on the option of “View Report” or “View Map”. You can download the report of your Jharkhand Land Records Vasudha Bhulekh details and can take the printout of your map on paper. There are some others options are available on this section where you need enter your information as per the above given details to get your Jharkhand Land Record.

How to Get Registry Information in Vasudha for Jharkhand Land Records (रजिस्टर॥ जानकारी प्राप्त करें)
In this page you will get three options as per the below given list:

  • With Khata Number (खाता नम्बर) –
  • With Reyat Number (रैयत का नाम) – Here you may have to
  • Find Letters (शब्द से खोजें)

To get the registry details section of Vasudha Page to get the information of your property Jharkhand Land Records you will have to enter on the http://210.212.20.94/land/frmreg2searchykhatano.aspx page first after that on the page select your District, Anchal and village after that enter your Khata number (खाता नम्बर), Jamabandi Number (जमाबन्दी न०), Halka Number (हल्का न०), Name of Reyat (रैयत का नाम), Your father’s name (पिता का नाम), Khasara Number (खसरा नंबर), Rakwa (रकवा), your village name (गावं का नाम), post office (पोस्ट) and total numbers of plot (कुल प्लॉटो की संख्या).

How to Get Khasra Map (खसरा मानचित्र केसे प्राप्त करें) –
First Visit to the page of http://210.212.20.94/land/frmvillagemapmenu.aspx to get your Khasara map here you will have to enter the name of your district and then need to select the Anchal after that village then click to the option of “Maanchitra (मान चित्र)” and get your Jharkhand Land Records with Map.

How to do Dakhila Kharij Mutation(दाखिल खारिज़ प्रक्रिया) –
To get the Dakhila Kharij Mutation you will have to enter your login ID and password which you will get from your nearest tehsil however this section is only for the official use but if you know someone in your tehsil they can also provide you user name and pass from which you can make your Dakhila Kharij Mutation of your property in the process of Jharkhand Land Record.

How to get information about Revenue Process (राजस्व/मालगुजारी प्रक्रिया) –
This section is also made by NIC for official use the staff persons of revenue department of Jharkhand or your tehsil staff members can gives you information about your revenue (मालगुजारी) details.

In the official website there is the last option available only for the office purpose use which can use only by the tehsil staff of Jharkhand State district wise. They can login on the page and can give you any kinds of information which you want to get about your Jharkhand online Land records, khata khatauni, Jharkhand bhu Abhilekh, Jharkhand bhulekh, or about the software of Vasudha.