Ashoka Pillar at Lauria Nandangarh

Ancient Ashoka Pillar:-- Near 2250 years old Ashoka Pillar on the banks of Budhi Gandak! This Ashoka pillar is located in Lauria Nandangarh (Pa • Champaran, Bihar). This pillar is 32 feet high, on which east facing lion is also built, on it 6 inscriptions in Brahmi script are engraved by Emperor Ashoka, in which there are instructions related to Dhamma and public welfare!! The polish of this ancient column is as attractive as it is today! Siddharth also left for Vaishali-Rajgir from this route. Ashoka had built a beautiful pillar in his memory, around it there are 15-20 stupas and many ancient mounds! This place might have belonged to the Moris of Piplivan! The huge stupa of Nandangarh is located 2 km away from it. The journey continues!......

Feel so good being there, seeing our one of the most historical place. Feel equally bad seeing that the government didn't take much care of it... Gates was open, no guards was there and goats were roaming around the places like it's there playground... Feel really bad that we are not preserving well our history

Peace and neat and clean place ..you can choose for picnic place

Lauria Nandangarh, also Lauriya Navandgarh, is a city or town about 14 km from Narkatiaganj and 28 km from Bettiah in West Champaran district of Bihar state in northern India. It is situated near the banks of the Burhi Gandak River. The village draws its name from a pillar of Ashoka standing there and the stupa mound Nandangarh about 2 km south-west of the pillar. Lauriya Nandangarh is a historical site located in West Champaran district of Bihar. Remains of Mauryan period have been found here.

Ashok Stambh is situated in Lauriya and it is around 25 km away from Bettiah. I visited this place hundreds of time. This pillar is still in good shape with famous tiger is on its top. If you love to visit historical place and keen to know about King Ashoka you must visit this place.

The place is named after Ashoka pillar (laur). It is made of sandstone and is about 10 m high....needs better maintenance and the writing should be translated and put up as a notice board by ASI. Made some time in 241 BC. Is on ancient Road to Nepal.

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It's very attractive place to visit and spend time here.. every year a fair is organized at this place in the month of December and January ... Must visit such historical place to feel connected with our history and civilization... it's one of the best known historical place to visit with friends and family.

Ashoka Pillar which is established by Ashok in his rule at different places, some examples are ashoka pillar near Qutub Minar in Delhi other in Lauriya, Bihar.

Great historical place to be proud of.

This is beautiful place.

Ashoka pillars, the one at Lauriya-Nandangarh is highly polished in the characteristic Mauryan style. The capital of this pillar comprises a single seated lion, whose rump and hind legs protrude beyond the abacus that consists of a row of geese flying clockwise. This abacus is placed atop an inverted bell-shaped lotus with fluted petals, and is fixed to the pillar by metal dowel rods. The pillar is inscribed with the first six of Ashoka’s Major Pillar Edicts, written in Ashokan Prakrit using the Brahmi script.

It’s an unique thing showing golden era of India when king Ashok ruled upto Afghanistan

It's very good place to visit historical places

Amazing historical place to visit. It's topmost part is replaced later. Bihar govt should promote historical tourism like this.

This is a historical and religious place related to The great Ashoka and Baudh religion. It is located in the district of West Champaran in Bihar just some steps from the National Highway, 727 at Lauria, block headquarter. It has been developed to some extent by ASI.

Ancient pillar established by King Ashoka the great. On the piller there are many things written in different languages, that is almost impossible to read for a common man. Good place to visit at weekends. The temple near this is quite beautiful.

That's the place where you would find glory, there is also a hill called Nandangarh both are at same place so must visit but come in summers or winter season not in rainy season bcoz it's a flood area....

It is situated in my home town... Love this place

The famous pillar of Ashoka. It is a single block of polished sandstone over 32 feet (10 m) high. The top is bell shaped with a circular abacus ornamented with Brahmi geese supporting the statue of a lion.