Hastinapur, India
Unnamed Road
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Good for kids
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
So far so good. This place is quite a picnic spot if you can escape the menace of naughty monkeys. But I can guarantee you that for a short trip, this place won't disappoint you at all and specially in the winter times. This place seems to be an underdog in case of being an architecture masterpiece. Go and have some quality fun time with family and friends.
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Hastinapur is a city in Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is described in Hindu texts (Mahabharata and Puranas) as the capital of the Kuru Kingdom and is also mentioned in ancient Jain texts. Hastinapur is located on the right bank of an old bed of the Ganga, and is known in literature and tradition as the capital of the Kauravas, of Kuru Kingdom, in the Mahabharata. Many incidents in the epic Mahabharata are set in the city of Hastinapur. The Mahabharata villains, the 100 Kaurava brothers, were born here, to their mother, Queen Gandhari, wife of King Dhritarashtra. On the bank of the Budhi Ganga, two places known as Draupadi Ghat and Karna Ghatremind one of the Mahabharata personages. The first reference to Hastinapur in the Puranas comes as the capital of Emperor Bharata. Samrat Samprati, the grandson of the emperor Asoka the Great, of the Mauryan Empire, who built many temples here during his reign. The ancient temple and stupas are not present today. Excavation at Hastinapur was carried out in the early 1950s by B.B. Lal, Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. Although the main aim of this excavation, according to Lal himself, was to find out the stratigraphic position of Painted Grey Ware with reference to other known ceramic industries of the early historical period, Lal also found correlations between the text of the Mahabharata and the material remains that he uncovered at Hastinapur. This exercise led him to historicize some of the traditions mentioned in the text, as well as link the appearance of the Painted Grey Ware with Aryans in upper Ganges basin areas, though the pre-history of Hastinapur is not clear, because extensive excavation could not be undertaken in an inhabited area. In the medieval era, Hastinapur was attacked by Mughal ruler Babur when invading Hindustan. During British India, Hastinapur was ruled by the Raja Nain Singh Nagar. He built many Hindu temples in and around Hastinapura.
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