Barabar Caves

Barabar and Nagarjuni Discovery Story Barabar is located in the state of Bihar in Gaya of Jehanabad district. In the conjunction of this stands the group of Nagarjuni hills. John Herbert Harington was the first European to visit the site who saw it from the top of hill and explored it, he published his report (A Description of cave Near Gaya, Asiatic Researches, 1798) in 1798. He refers to Kauvadol as “Keoyadol” and that it is very naked and immense rock groups of perfect middle-sized grained white and black granite. He visited Kauvdol first. According to him people pretend that the name of the hill came from a rocking stone that was on its top, so nicely balanced as to be movable by the weight a crow. All along the northern and the eastern stretch of Kauvadol, as Buchanan reports, there are numerous carvings representing various deities or persons remarkable in Hindu mythology, all exceedingly rude and many of them worn by the action of the weather, engraved in perfect granite. The chief temple near the place contains an image called Bouddh Sen. According to him, a Srotri Brahmaṇa who lives about a close off is Pujārī for all idols on the hill, and makes offerings to Bouddh Sen …