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बिहुला और चंदू सौदागर (Bihula and Chandu Saudagar)

Manasa Debi was a mind-born daughter31 of Siva. She was born of Sivaâ€™s semen left on a chikanipata32. She is known as Bisahari33 and said to have extraordinary supernatural power to bless her devotees. She can also ruin and kill those who do not believe in her existence and offer their prayer to her. There was a very rich ship merchant, named Chanrakar. He was also known to the people as Chandu Saudagar34. He was a great devotee of Siva. He had six sons and a happy family. He did not consider Manasa as a Goddess. Manasa Debi did not like this attitude of Chandu Saudagar and killed all his six sons by sending black snakes. However Chandu Saudagar did not relent. One day pleased with the devotion of Chandu Siva appeared in his dream and expressed his willingness to bless him with some great things as per the desire of Chandu. Chandu Saudagar asked him for a son. Siva agreed to bless him with a son but put a condition before him. â€œ If you want to have a son who will have long …

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – U-Z

List of Poets & Authors of Angika in alphabetical Order (U-Z) Uchitlal Singh Uday Prasad Tiwari Udaykant Singh Udaykant Thakur Bihari Uma Pandey Umakant Singh Umanath Ojha Umanath Pathak Umesh Bharti Umesh Mohan Gupta Umeshji Upendra narayan Pandey Usha Swetakavri Kumari Uttam Kumar Singh Vachandeo Kumar Vagishwari Devi Vaikunth Vihari Vajit Lal Mishra Valmiki Vanchha Anjan Varidji Vasudev Sah Ved Prakash Bajpai Veena Rani Mishra Vibhash Chandra Jha Vidhushekhar Pandey Vidyabhushan Singh Venu Vidyananda Kishore Vidyarani Vijay (Lalit Vijnaya) Vijay Kumar Singh Vijeta Mudgalpuri Vijyendra Vikash Pandey Vikash Prasad Singh Gulti Vikram Kumar Rana Vanjara Vikrmaditya Vihangam Vilakshan Vibhuti Vilash Mandal Vimal Kumar Mishra Vimal Verma Vinay Prasad Gupta Vindvala Singh Vinod Kumar Jha Nirala Vipin Kumar Mishra Virendra Kumar Dikshit Vishnudeo Prasad Singh Shastri Vishuddhananda V…

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – P-T

List of Poets & Authors of Angika in alphabetical Order (P-T) N.Jaysaval Pankaj Kumar Chudhary Paras Kunj Parikshit Premi Parshuram Jha Prakhar Parsuram Thakur Brahmavadi Pashupati Jha Patjhar Khairavadi Pavan Kumar Panjiyar Pavan Kumar(Babbu) Permanand Lal परमानन्द पाण्डेय, डॉ. (Dr. Permanand Pandey) Permanand Premi Permanand Singh Phalguni Marik Kushwaha Phanibhusan Prasad Phool Kumar Akela Prabhakar Prabhat Prabhash Chandra Jha Prabhash Prasad Pathak Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Anandmurti Prabhat Sarsij Pradeep Prabhat Pradumn Narayan Singh Pradyot Kumar Choudhary Prakash Sen Pritam Prakash Suryavanshi Prakashvati Narayan Pramila Bhaskar Jyoti Pramod Bharti Pramod Kumar Singh Pran Mohan Pran Prashun Latant Pratima Verma Prita Priyamvada Pritam Kumar Deep Pritam Vishwakarma Punam Mishra Pundrik Ratna Pushpa Sinha K.Neerad Pravesh Rachna Chittapriya Radha Krishna Choudhary Radha Singh Ra…

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – K-O

List of Poets & Authors of Angika in alphabetical Order (K-O) Kailash Jha "Kinkar" Kaiyum Ansari Kaladhari Kalanand Jha Kalyani Kamalkishore Sah "Eklavya" Kamdeo Jha Kamdeo Mishra Kamesh Karun Kamla Prasad Bekhabar Kamla Prasad Upadhyaya "Vinod" Kamleshwari Prasad Singh Toofan Kamleshwari Prasad Tiwari Kanaklal Choudhary "Kandika" Kanhaiya Lal Choudhary Kapildeo Thakur Kripala Kapileshwar Kapil Kartiknath Gourinath Thakur Kavita Parvana Kedar Prasad Singh "Taruni" Keshav Khagendra Thakur Khushilal Manjar Changeri Kishor Kumar Raj Kishore Kumar Singh Kanchan Kishori Kumari Pandey Kislay Komal Krishna Mohan Mishra Krishna Singh Krit Narayan Pyara Krityanand Singh Kumar Bhagalpuri Kumar Vimal Kumari Mrinalini Choudhary Kunal Priyadarshi Kundan Amitabh Kunj Bharti Kusumakar Dubey Lakhan Lal Singh "Arohi" Lakhan Lal Singh Lal Lala Jagat Jyoti Prasad Lalbaboo Singh Laxman Prasad Belhariya Laxman …

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – F-J

List of Poets & Authors of Angika in Alphabetical Order (F-J) Gadadhar Prasad Ambashatha Ganesh Kusum Ganesh Prasad Ghayal Ganesh Upkari Ganga Prasad Rao Giridhar Gopal Pathak Girish Giridhar Shashtri Bhramar Girija Shankar Modi Gokulananda Pandey Gopal Chandra Ghosh Gopal Krishna "Pragya" Gopal Mishra गोरेलाल मनीषी (Gorelal Manishi) Gourang Prasad Sevak Gouri Rani Gouri Shankar Tiwari Guresh Mohan Ghosh Saral Gyanam Bhardwaj Gyandev Pandey Haldar Choudhary "Deen" Hans Kumar Tiwari Harihar Choudhary Vikal Harinarayan Singh हीरा प्रसाद "हरेंद्र" (Heera Prasad "Harendra") Hiralal Jha Hem Indramohan Thakur Indubala Indubala Suman Indubhushan Mishra "Devendu" Indushekhar Pandey Iraa Smriti Jagdish Mishra Jagdish Pathak Madhukar Jagdish Shashtri Kaviraj Jagdishnarayan Verma Jagganath Prasad Chaturvedi Jaiprakash Mahto Janardan Janardan Roy Janardan Yadav Janmejya Mishra Jayant Choudhary Jayant Kum…

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Writers, Poets & Authors)

कोनो साहित्यकार के बारे म s ज्यादा जानकारी आरो हुनका रचना पढै लेली हुनको नाम पर क्लिक करs

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अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – Post independence

Post independence Poets & Authors of Angika Total number of such writers in Angika are around 600. Name of such devoted persons are listed here alphabetically. They have created hundreds of books and thousands of articles,details of which shall be available on this site very shortly. List of Poets & Authors of Angika Poets & Authors (A-E) Poets & Writers List (F-J) Poets & Writers List (K-O) Poets & Writers (P-T) Poets & Writers (U-Z)

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – Ancient Period

Ancient Period to Pre-independence era Authors and Poets of Angika Period 800 A.D. : Saraha or Sarahpa,Shabrapa or Shabreshwar. Period 900 A.D. : Charptipa or Pachreepa,Dhampa or Dhrmpa or Gundripa, Mekopa. Period 1000 A.D. : Deepankar Shrigyan Atish (Birth year:980AD) Period 1100 A.D. : Champkapa, Chelukapa, Jayanantpa(Jayanandipa), Nirgunpa, Luchikapa. Period 1200 A.D. : Putulipa. Period 1700 A.D. : Kifayat (Shekh). Period 1800 A.D. : Jagganath(Jagarnath Ram), Vedanand Singh.

अंगिका – कवि और लेखक (Angika – Poets & Authors) – Overview

Angika Literature today means literature produced by Poets and Authors of Angika language begining in the ancient past to what is written today. The rich tradition of Angika literature spans a probable minimum period of about 1300years(When it is counted from 800A.D. when first clear evidence of availability of Sarah's written form of literature in Angika or Apbramsha is found)to a probable maximum period of 4000years (When it is counted from the year when the first Indian literature in Vedic Sanskrit was found to be existed).This period may be longer than the supposed one. Authors and Poets of Angika may be categorised mainly in two groups: (a) Ancient Period to Preindependence era (b) Post independence era

अंगिका साहित्य – प्राचीन साहित्य (Angika Sahitya – Prachin Sahitya)

Kavi Saraha was the first poet of Angika, whose poetry are available in written form.Â Poems were written by him in 800 A.D. Sarah's famous "Doha Kosha" was written in Angika Language. He Wrote 36 books in Angika. Sarah is also considered as the first poet of Hindi language whose poetry is available in written forms (this fact is not proved yet).

अंगिका साहित्य – वर्तमान परिदृश्य (Angika Sahitya – Present Scenario)

Presently hundreds of standard books and thousands of articles are available in Angika language. Ang Madhuri, a monthly magazine of Angika language is being published by Dr. Naresh Pandey Chakore regularly for the last 39 years. Angika is being taught in Tilkamanjhi University of Bihar state at Graduation and Post Graduation Levels.

जमालपुर (Jamalpur)

Jamalpur in Bihar's Monghyr Disrict has one of the most remarkable Railway Workshops in the World, and the largest in India. Not even the US of A can surpass India's mammoth railway network, the busiest in the world. Jamalpur is a city and a municipality in Munger district in the Indian state of Bihar. Jamalpur is best known as a very large workshop on the East Indian Railway, employing over 30,000 people at one time. The town was established during the British Raj and the cultural hub at that time was the Railway Institute. The Railway Institute was huge - it had its own movie theatre, a six-lane swimming pool, eight tennis courts, four billiard rooms and a bowling lawn. Its dances were renowned and railway folk came from all over the East India Railway (EIR) to attend. Waterfall The waterfall is not a regular feature during the rainy season and usually a deer species known as neelgai in the local dialect is found near the same.The waterfall is approachable from the wat…

जमालपुर रेल कार्यशाला (Jamalpur Rail Workshop)

The Railway age in Eastern India started on August 15, 1854 The Railway age in Eastern India started on August 15, 1854, exactly ninety-three years before Independence. A locomotive, carriage and wagon workshop was set up in Howrah to put to commission imported rolling stock of EIR and also to render economic repairs to them. The railways spread very fast, perhaps faster than the anticipation of EIR. Within a short span of eight years, it became necessary to shift the site of shop, as there was hardly any scope for expansion at Howrah. Jamalpur Workshop The British chose Jamalpur as the new site of this workshop due to ready availability of skilled workers who were descendants of acclaimed gun makers and fabricators of weapons of steel for the Nawabs of Bengal and Orissa. Jamalpur is also geographically well located, on the western side of a hill range while the Ganges flow 7 KMs north of it. The workshop has a number of FIRSTS to its credit, a few of which are: - The FIRST to…

अंगकोरवाट (Angkorwat)

The temple of Angkor, the great historical legacy of Khmer civilization, stand majestically in Situ in north-west Cambodia. At the heart of the Khmer empire, Angkor Thome, for over 500 years from the ninth to the fifteen century, the monuments constructed by Ang-inhabitants (People belonging to Ang Mahajanpad of ancient India whose language was Angika.) during 1200 A.D. belong to the classic period of Khmer art and are unrivaled in architectural greatness.

"The temples startle with their splendor and perfection but beyond the emotions they evoke lie complex microcosms of the universe steeped in cosmology". Khmer art of the period includes finely modeled sculptures of startling beauty. "Sensuous, yet never erotic, male and female forms stand in grandeur and dignity offering universal appeal, past and present". Down Rooney.

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विक्रमशिला विश्वविद्यालय के अवशेष (Ruins of Ancient Vikramshila University) – Bhagalpur

Ruins of Vikramshila University

Located 252 kms from Patna, in the district of Bhagalpur, is the site of an ancient University, Vikramshila. The university was founded by king Dharmpala, in late 8th century AD.

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सुल्तानगंज (Sultanganj/Jahngira)

Sultanganj is a town in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, 109 km away from Babadham and has a railway station, of the same name on the loop-line of the Eastern Railway running from Calcutta to Kiul. It is situated close to the river Ganges.

An excellent all-weather road connecting Bhagalpur with Monghyr and Patna also serves it. It has a cosmopolitan population of about eleven thousand persons. It is a flourishing business place and there are a number of schools and colleges.

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अंग के वन्य जीवन अभयारण्य और पार्क (Wild Life Sanctuary & Parks)

VIKRAMSHILA GANGETIC DOLPHIN SANCTUARY Area : 50 km stretch Location : Bhagalpur Best Time to Visit : October and June. Speciality : Dolphin Dolphins were once popular in the Ganges, though they are rare today. 50 km stretch of River Ganga from Sultanganj to Kahalgaon has been declared Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary where around 40 dolphins are present.Â BHIMBANDH SANCTUARY Area : 682 sq. km. Location : Close to Bhagalpur. Best Time to Visit : October and June. Speciality : Tiger, Panther, Wild Boar, Sambhar, Chittals and Nilgai. This Sanctuary is close to Bhagalpur. It is another home to a variety of wildlife. Besides tiger, panther, wild boar, sambhar, chittals and nilgai, the forests here are famous for hot water springs which are said to contain traces of radio active materials. KABAR LAKE Location : 20 kms from Begusarai town Best Time to Visit : October and June Speciality : Resident Birds and Migratory Birds Kabar Lake at Begusarai is a " dream spot". Th…

राजमहल, साहिबगंज (Rajmahal/Akbarnagar) – Sahibganj

Rajmahal is small sub divisional town in the Sahebganj districtof Jharkhand. The Rajmahal hills, which are geographically significant because they are the north east boundary of Daccan Plateau, are named after this place. The Holy river Ganga passes by the town of Rajmahal. The place is more significant because it is this place where the river Ganga while meandering thru Rajmahal hills takes turn from eastward flow to southward and then it enters into West Bengal.

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मंदार पर्वत, बाँका (Mandar Hills) – Banka

Mandar Parvat (Mandar hill) is a small mountain situated in Banka district under Bhagalpur division of state of Bihar. It is about 700 ft high and approximately 45 km south of Bhagalpur city. The mountain is famous as Mandar Hill. Mandar Hill is a great place of pilgrimage although it is not so well known now. On top of the hill there are two temple side by side belonging to Hinduism and Jainism followers.

The mountain has many references in hindu mythology known as mandarachal parvat. As per references found from Puranas and Mahabharata this hill was used for churning the ocean to extract the nectar from its bosom (Samudra Manthan).

HISTORY

At that time (606647 A. D.) the area was under the rule of the Khetauri kings of Mal origin and they were very antagonistic to the Buddhist monks. But Buddhism had another spurt in Anga during the Pala kings.Under Dharma- pala (c. 770810 A.D.), the son of Gopala, the frontier of the Anga empire touched the west of the S…

बेगूसराय (Begusarai)

Begusarai city is a municipal corporation and a grain market in Begusarai district in the state of Bihar, India. Begusarai district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar and Begusarai town is the administrative headquarters of this district.

The district lies on the northern bank of the Ganga River. It is located at latitudes 25.15N & 25.45N and longitudes 85.45E & 86.36E. Begusarai is the birthplace of famous Hindi poet Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh and eminent historian Professor Ram Saran Sharma. Begusarai had traditionally been a communist stronghold and was earlier also referred to as the Leningrad of Bihar.

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कांवरियों के लिए – क्या करें और क्या न करें, देवघर (Do’s & Don’t For Kanwariyas)

Essential articles

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