Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.9

c10.9

Lauriā Nandangarh, a village known for its Aśokan pillar (whence its name, Skt. *Lakuṭa*, Hindi *Laur* लौर), is 15 miles north-west of Betiah in Champaran District, and is also the site of another interesting remains, viz. three rows of earthen barrows or huge conical mounds of earth, of which two of the rows lie from north to south, and the third from west to east. These were identified by Cunningham as sepulchral mounds and asigned to a period between 1500 B. C. and 600 B. C., associated in local tradition as the burial mounds of the Chakravartī king Uttānapāda.