Description:- Didarganj Yakshi (Chauri Bearer), State :- Bihar
Post Office :- Philatelic Bureau Patna GPO, Pin Code :- 800001
The Didarganj
Yakshi or Didarganj Chauri Bearer is one of the finest examples of
very early Indian stone statues. It used to be dated to the 3rd century BCE, as
it has the fine Mauryan polish associated
with Mauryan art.
But this is also found on later sculptures and it is now usually dated to
approximately the 2nd century CE, based on the analysis of shape and
ornamentation, or the 1st century CE.The treatment of the forelock in particular is said to be
characteristically Kushan.The sculpture is
now in the Bihar Museum in Patna, Bihar,
India, close to where it was found in 1917. Patna, as Pataliputra, was also the Mauryan capital.
Description:- Golghar, State :- Bihar
Post Office :- Philatelic Bureau Patna GPO, Pin Code :- 800001
The Golghar or Gol Ghar is a large granary located to the west of
the Gandhi Maidan in Patna, capital of Bihar state, India. Built in the Stupa architecture,
the building has a height of 29 m. It is pillar-less with a wall of thickness
of 3.6 m at the base. One can climb to the top of the Golghar via its 145-step
spiral stairway. The spiral staircase was designed to facilitate the passage of
the workers who loaded and unloaded the grain in the granary, who had to carry
grain-bags up one flight, deliver their load through a hole at the top, and
descend the other stairs.The top of the Golghar presents a panoramic view of
the city and the Ganges. Golghar
has never been filled to its maximum capacity and there are no plans to do so.
Some have claimed that the reason for this is a flaw whereby the doors are
designed to open inwards; thus, if it is filled to its maximum capacity, then
the doors will not open. However, visitors have found that the doors open
outwards. Presently renovation of this historical monument is underway.
Description:- Vidyapati , State :- Bihar
Post Office :- Bisfi S. O, Pin Code :- 847122
Vidyapati (c. 1380 –
1460), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil, was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer,
courtier and royal priest. He was a devotee of Shiva,
but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs. He knew Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha, and Maithili.Vidyapati's influence was not
just restricted to Maithili and Sanskrit literature but also extended to other
Eastern Indian literary traditions. The language at the time of Vidyapati,
the prakrit-derived late Abahattha, had just begun to transition
into early versions of the Eastern languages such as Maithili and Bhojpuri. Thus, Vidyapati's influence on
making these languages has been described as "analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England".He has been called the
"Father of Bengali literature".Vidyapati was born to a Maithil Brahmin family in the village of Bisapī (now Bisfi) in the present-day Madhubani district of the Mithila region of northern Bihar, India.The name Vidyapati ("master of knowledge") is derived
from two Sanskrit words, vidya ("knowledge") and pati ("master"). There is confusion as to his
exact date of birth due to conflicting information from his own works and those
of his patrons.
