gave clear evidence of a number of small of Heruka. About 10 kms. from Kuruma chambers clustered together. a village named Chaurasi (literally meaning Cultural Calendar - July 2016 84) is situated under the Nimapara Evidence collected in the first phase of police station in the district of Puri. The excavation suggest that the northern sacred Prachi river flows by its northern sector has the establishment for teaching and southern sides. The village is full of Cellular Awakening at the ground floor and probably the antiquities. It is believed that in ancient Lecture cum workshop residential accommodations for the times when Prachi was a navigable river Life Management through Mind Management learners in the upper floors. As to the 1 & 2 there stood on its bank and at Chaurasi a Friday & Saturday by Anurag Chhabra, India residential chambers of the Acharyas and big and prosperous town. Sailing vessels 4.00pm - 7.30pm Venue: ICC auditorium the Bhikshyus in the southern sector, there also could enter then in the river Kadua, Sanskarika is plenty of evidence. The second phase a tributary of Prachi and there was a Newsletter of the Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo July 2016 of excavation will no doubt bring to light a particular place where ships anchored. large number of such chambers throwing The ruins of this port still can be seen and further light on the mode of living of Hindustani Vocal Recital the place is now called ‘Boltadiha’, or a by Prof. Ojesh Pratap Singh, the Bhikshyus as well as the architectural place where boats took shelter in the significance of the establishment. Phd. University of Delhi, India 8 village of Jagannathpara on the bank of Venue: ICC auditorium Friday KURUMA: Kuruma is a site of Buddhist river Kadua and the place of confluence 6.00pm archaeological discoveries. The mound where river Chandrabhaga meets river of bricks which attracted the attention Kadua. of the visitors was seen by the side of This place is 3 kms. from Kuruma in the a tank called ‘Dharma¬Pokhari’ at the north and half a km. from Otang which Flute Recital one end of the village. Some years ago according to Pt. Krupasindhu Mishra was by Hemapala Perera a large. stone slab was lying on the bank said to be an ancient Buddhist city - 15 renowned flautist of Sri Lanka of this tank. Once upon a time when `Odantapur’. Considering the reading of Friday Venue: ICC auditorium the tank underwent a renovation the Chaurasi grant and other records available 6.00pm villagers displaced the slab, they found a it may be said that a Buddha Vihara was beautiful image carved on it. The image built at Kuruma sometime in the 8th century was not then recognised as an image before the construction of the Sun Temple of Buddha. It was identified only in On every Akshyaya Trutiya day, 3rd day Kathak Recital 1958 when Sri Bamdev Mohapatra, the of the bright fortnight of Baisakha (April- by Sankaja Nimantha Pinidiya then headmaster of Konark High School Venue: ICC auditorium 22 May) the villagers arrange for a gathering brought this incident to the notice of Friday of ‘Thakurs’ (God) and enjoy the day 6.00pm the state historians. Besides the image of -with great pomp. On Baisakha Purnima Dhyani Buddha, two other images were day people also take their plunge in the found from the tank (Dharma-Pokhari) holy tank, ‘Dharma¬Pokharl’ and hold Friday matinee – Dil Bole Hadippa in the year 1960. The state archaeology meetings on the occasion of Buddha’s department has undertaken the work Director : Anurag Singh (duration : 3 hrs) birthday. Approachable by jeeps it lies at Synopsis: Veera who lives in a small village but dreams in 70 of excavation at Kuruma for the last few a distance of 8kms. from Konark. years. Recent excavations have thrust 29 mm, who works in a local theatre group but dreams of playing Odisha is one of the 29 states of India, Friday this little village into the limelight with the cricket in the big league.... located in the eastern coast. 3.00pm discovery of antique of Buddha seated in Venue: ICC auditorium Source: A Journey to Odisha Bhumisparsa Mudra along with the image published by Orissa Tourism Programmes subject to change Published by the Indian Cultural Centre,16/2, Gregory’s Road, Colombo 07. Tel: 011 2684698 Admission to all programmes are on first come first serve basis. A view of Ajanta Ellora Caves, India Email: [email protected] Facebook: facebook.com/indianculturalcentre P.C: Ashok Basu All are cordially invited 2330195 UNIE ARTS, Purusottampur of Ganjam district. It is designs of the Parimalagiri Monastery Cultural Tapestry named so because the walls of an ancient (200 A.D.) which had five storeys and Continues from May 2016 Issue fort which once existed here, were made lofty towers . with four big halls with jambhala, Aparajita, Heruka and others, of Jau or lacquer. The fort was destroyed the life-size images of Buddha (made of Buddhist shrines of Odisha found during excavation, make Udayagiri by the King of Malatigarh belonging to solid gold), according to Hiuen Tsang’s LALITGIRI: Lalitgiri, 90 kms. a-way from a unique site of Buddhist heritage: the Keshari dynasty. The caves of the hills account. Bhubaneswar, is one of the earliest here bear the inscriptions of Emperor KHICHING: The wealth and antiquities Ashoka. About 2 kilometres from Jaugada The Muchalinda monastery, which Buddhist complexes, dating back to the unearthed here clearly indicate that it covers an area of 1.5 acres, was a multi- 1st century AD. The huge brick monastery, lies Buddhakhol, with reminiscence of was the place where people professing Buddhist sculpture. storeyed structure of well-burnt bricks. the remains of a Chaitya Hall, a number Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism were The extensive floors paved with bricks of votive stupas and a renovated stone living side by side and were maintaining nearly placing the right leg upon the left LANGUDI : Close to the diamond triangle BOUDH : Buddhism was prevalent in suggest that there were big halls or stupa at the top of a rugged sandstone institutions of their respective religion. The one and they display in right hand not the of Ratnagiri-Lalitgiri-Udayagiri, Langudi Boudh in between the 9th and 12th dormitories in north, while the site south hillock dominate the greenery around. largest number of ruined temples and Bhumisparsa but Varada pose, although is another important Buddhist heritage centuries. So it bears the name. of the Chaitya Hall appeared to have The sculpture shed nearby displays sculptural remains found at Khiching, exist the left hand is lying with palm upwards, site. The remains unearthed here include been the residential establishment. The excavated images, throwing light on now within the perimeter of nakuram’s on the Utsanga. In each of these images, clusters of rock-cut votive stupas, two PARIMALAGIRI : In ancient times the foot foundation wall was quite massive, about the various schools of Buddhist art. The compound. The image of Buddha in Aswatha branches are seen shooting unique images of Buddha with female area of Gandhamardan mountain, where 0.9 metres in width, containing 12 large discovery of golden caskets in 1985, Bhumisparsa Mudra represents post- up from the Usnisa and heavenly beings followers and ruins of a brick monastery. Nrusinghanath temple is situated was layers of bricks placed on strong earth containing sacred bone relics, probably Gupta style. The figure sits on the lotus paying obeisance from the sky above, The most remarkable and prize discovery called Parimalagiri. According to Hiuen mixed with small stone chips and sandy of Tathagata, enhances the sacredness of throne in a posture of Yogi, touching the while below the lotus throne a devotee at this place are the two inscribed images Tsang, the Chinese traveller, this place was clay. Small brick walls having foundation the place. earth, with the fingers of his right hand, is found worshipping with several of Emperor Ashoka-one along with his a centre of Buddhist scriptural learning. on stone boulders run on from the main upacharas. All these Buddha figures are two queens. The excavation going on UDAYAGIRI : Nearby Udayagiri is known making the earth witness to his great vow, MUCHALINDA : The Muchalinda Vihara, wall. These were apparently meant for however, much inferior in artistic merit in these hills provides the visitors with a for its bell-shaped Stupa signifying placing the left hand palm upward on his located near the confluence of the Ang dwelling of bhikshyus (holy beggars). to the colossal image of Bhumisparsa unique opportunity to be a part of the Vajrajana form of Buddhism. One of the lap. The face looks graceful with dangling or Ong and Nagar rivers at Ganiapalli in Buddha and although they display great unfolding history and heritage. The ground floor seems to have largest Buddhist complexes in Odisha, ear-ring and branches of the Aswatha Bargarh district was not only the earliest tree are shooting up from the Usnisa, vigour, they lack in soft modelling and contained a large number of such small Udayagiri is about 90 kms. away from While Buddhist circuit of Ratnagiri, Lalitgiri, of its kind in Odisha, but even in India. suggesting the Bodhi tree of the Uruvela appeared conventional and crude. cells, which are 1.8 metres by 2.4 metres. Bhubaneswar. The ancient name of this Udayagiri and Langudi hill deserves A structural monastery of this magnitude forest where the Blessed One attained Traces of only four such cells have been complex was Madhavapura Mahavihara. The lower half of a colossal image of special mention in the annals of Buddhism was rare during the fourth-fifth century Enlightenment. The figures of two lions found so far. The excavations reveal that Chronologically, this complex came Lokeswar (Boddhisatva Avlokiteswara) in Odisha, there are other Buddhist sites A.D. according to the report on the have been engraved underneath the lotus the monastery had structural buildings into being after Ratnagiri and Lalitagiri, which was recovered from a mound in which lay scattered all over the state. archaeological excavation of the ruins at throne and one of them appears to be on the northern and southern sides of flourishing between 7th and 12th century 1974 has been preserved in Khiching There is not a single district in the state, Ganiapalli, submitted by the late eminent roaring with vigour. The image, however, the main Chaitya Hall. The northern area AD. It is located in the basin of a U-shaped Museum. An inscription incised on the where a Buddhist image or remains of historian Dr. N. K. Sahu. The Vihara at seems engrossed in deep meditation and showed evidence of some dormitories hill. The remnants suggest the presence of base of the image states that the image Buddhism have not been found. Of all Ganiapalli was most likely built after the reveals soft modelling and pulsation of life like building and the southern sector brick monasteries, a brick stupa, rock-cut of the Lord Lokesh has been made by Sri the places, Kuruma and Chaurasi in Prachi within. A few figures of Vajrasana Buddha sculptures and a stepped well with an Dhanani Varaha, assisted by Kirti for Raja valley of Puri district, Banpur in Khorda are found in this site and they differ both inscription. The images of Dhyani Buddha, Sri Rayabhanja, was found at Bamanghati district, Biswanath hills in Puri district, in style and execution. They sit on the Bodhisattva, Avalokiteswara, Tara, (presently Rairangapur) in 1870. Moraguda in Nuapada district, Choudwar lotus not on cross-legged posture but in Cuttack (Kataka) district, Jaipur in Jaipur ARAGARH : Located at a distance of district, Ayodhya and Balasore in Balasore about 20 kms. from Bhubaneswar, on the district, Jaugada and Buddhakhol in northern bank of the river Daya, Aragarh Ganjam district, Khiching and Baripada was a prominent centre of Buddhism. in Mayurbhanj district, Ganiapalli and The Buddhist nucleus is traced from the Melchamunda in Bargarh district, Boudh in time of Ashoka. It was the abode of Boudh district, etc. have remained great famous Buddhist dialectician Diganaga centres of Buddhism. (4th century A.D.), who established a monastery and a colossal stupa here. JAUGADA : Jaugada is situated near