An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.1176
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.1176
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Buxar (25°34′; 84°1′), Dt Bhojpur, on the Ganga which has been gradually cutting the mound, a site with a long traditional history of the Rāmāyaṇic age and having a medieval fort built on a part of it. A haphazard digging in 1926-7 yielded female terracotta figurines with flowing skirts, regarded as ‘prehistoric’ (Banerji-Śāstrī, 1930, 1934), and two seals with early Brāhmī legends. Systematic excavation in 1963-5 by B.P. Sinha *et al.* (*IAR 1963-4*, p. 8) showed three Pds, though the natural soil could not be reached.