The Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha were excavated from a site in which present-day district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Kushinagar
- B.Siddharthnagar
- C.Shravasti
- D.Gorakhpur
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Explanation
The correct answer is Siddharthnagar. Piprahwa lies in Siddharthnagar district and is associated with ancient Kapilavastu and the Shakya clan of Lord Buddha. William Claxton Peppe dug into a stupa at the site in 1898 and found reliquaries with bone fragments and precious objects, and the Archaeological Survey of India excavated deeper levels between 1971 and 1977 under K. M. Srivastava, reaching two more caskets. Kushinagar is wrong: it is the place of the Mahaparinirvana of Lord Buddha, after which the tradition of enshrining relics in stupas grew, but the relics now travelling to Arunachal Pradesh were not dug up there. Shravasti is wrong because, although it is an important Buddhist centre, the Piprahwa caskets have no link with it. Gorakhpur is wrong because it is simply a neighbouring district with no part in this discovery.
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Practice Questions
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- C.Himachal Pradesh
- D.Mizoram
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- D.National Museum, New Delhi
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