Bihar Sharif - Revision history

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<p>clean up</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:17, 2 January 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l91">Line 91:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 91:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Bihar is derived from ''vihar'' or ''[[vihara]]'', meaning [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] monastery, a reference to the ancient [[Odantapuri|Odantapuri University]] established near the city in the 7th century&nbsp;CE by [[Pala Empire|Pala]] king [[Gopala&nbsp;I]].<ref name="Brtnca">{{cite web|title=Bihar Sharif|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Bihar-Sharif|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="brit-odanta">{{cite web|title=Odantapuri|url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Odantapuri|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref> The settlement does, however, predate the [[Buddha]]. It became the capital of the [[Magadha]] kingdom from the rule of the [[Pala Empire]]. Odantapuri is considered to have been the second-oldest of India's [[Mahavihara]]s, and it was located at the foot of Bari Pahari ({{lang-en|Big Hill}}). According to [[Tibet]]an records it housed about 12,000 students and was an important centre of Buddhist learning. [[Acharya]] Sri Ganga of [[Vikramashila]] was a student there. The monks of Odantapuri are credited with propagating Buddhism in Bhutan. The Big Hill or Badi Pahadi was known as Pashravati at the time.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Bihar is derived from ''vihar'' or ''[[vihara]]'', meaning [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] monastery, a reference to the ancient [[Odantapuri|Odantapuri University]] established near the city in the 7th century&nbsp;CE by [[Pala Empire|Pala]] king [[Gopala&nbsp;I]].<ref name="Brtnca">{{cite web|title=Bihar Sharif|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Bihar-Sharif|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="brit-odanta">{{cite web|title=Odantapuri|url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Odantapuri|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref> The settlement does, however, predate the [[Buddha]]. It became the capital of the [[Magadha]] kingdom from the rule of the [[Pala Empire]]. Odantapuri is considered to have been the second-oldest of India's [[Mahavihara]]s, and it was located at the foot of Bari Pahari ({{lang-en|Big Hill}}). According to [[Tibet]]an records it housed about 12,000 students and was an important centre of Buddhist learning. [[Acharya]] Sri Ganga of [[Vikramashila]] was a student there. The monks of Odantapuri are credited with propagating Buddhism in Bhutan. The Big Hill or Badi Pahadi was known as Pashravati at the time.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Old ruined gate of the fort, Bihar.jpg|thumb|257x257px|Photograph of the old ruined gate of the fort at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Bihar Sharif<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>in [[Bihar]], taken by [[Joseph David Beglar]] in the 1870s.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Old ruined gate of the fort, Bihar.jpg|thumb|257x257px|Photograph of the old ruined gate of the fort at Bihar Sharif in [[Bihar]], taken by [[Joseph David Beglar]] in the 1870s.]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (1896) pp. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">256-257 </del>describes the fort: "The wall appears to have been 18 feet thick and 30 feet high, and the base of the rampart is 60 feet wide. The diameter is considerable, as the circumference is 8,500 feet. The distance from the north to the south gate is 2,800 feet, and from the east to the west gate 2,100 feet. The ground on which the fort stands is a natural plateau raised considerably above the level of the surrounding country and covers 312 acres. The shape of the fort is an irregular square, and its sides were composed of large masses of stone quarried from the neighbouring rock...There were many circular bastions, but the north gate was flanked by towers. There are many mounds of large buildings of brick in the centre of the fort, and from the profusion of the ruined Buddhist and Brahmanical buildings the site is judged to be very old."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (1896) pp.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;256–257 </ins>describes the fort: "The wall appears to have been 18 feet thick and 30 feet high, and the base of the rampart is 60 feet wide. The diameter is considerable, as the circumference is 8,500 feet. The distance from the north to the south gate is 2,800 feet, and from the east to the west gate 2,100 feet. The ground on which the fort stands is a natural plateau raised considerably above the level of the surrounding country and covers 312 acres. The shape of the fort is an irregular square, and its sides were composed of large masses of stone quarried from the neighbouring rock...There were many circular bastions, but the north gate was flanked by towers. There are many mounds of large buildings of brick in the centre of the fort, and from the profusion of the ruined Buddhist and Brahmanical buildings the site is judged to be very old."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Delhi Sultanate era===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Delhi Sultanate era===</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l148">Line 148:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 148:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to the 2011 census, 65.86% of the city's population identifies as [[Hinduism|Hindu]], 33.59% identifies as [[Islam|Muslim]], 0.34% did not answer the census question, 0.17% identifies as [[Christianity|Christian]], and fewer than fifty identified with each of the other religious groups on the survey.<ref name="2011citycen" /> A 1981 report lists a 48% proportion of Muslims and notes this as unusual for the area.<ref name="eapw" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to the 2011 census, 65.86% of the city's population identifies as [[Hinduism|Hindu]], 33.59% identifies as [[Islam|Muslim]], 0.34% did not answer the census question, 0.17% identifies as [[Christianity|Christian]], and fewer than fifty identified with each of the other religious groups on the survey.<ref name="2011citycen" /> A 1981 report lists a 48% proportion of Muslims and notes this as unusual for the area.<ref name="eapw" /></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, plans were announced for the construction of a local [[Bahá'í House of Worship]] in Bihar Sharif.<ref name="Baha'i-houses">{{cite news|title=Plans to build new Houses of Worship announced|url=http://news.bahai.org/story/906|access-date=25 March 2016|publisher=Baha'i World News Service|date=22 April 2012}}</ref> This would be only the second House of Worship for India's nearly two million Bahá'ís<ref name="arda">{{cite web|title=Most Baha'i Nations (2005)|url=http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp|publisher=The Association for Religion Data Archives|access-date=23 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414021730/http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp|archive-date=14 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> (the first being the well-known [[Lotus Temple]] in [[Delhi]]),<ref name="Lotus-cmpgn">{{cite news|title=Iconic "Lotus Temple" focus of worldwide campaign|url=http://news.bahai.org/story/856|access-date=25 March 2016|publisher=Bahá'í World News Service|date=6 October 2011}}</ref> and one of the first two local Bahá'í Houses of Worship in Asia (the other being in [[Battambang]], [[Cambodia]]).<ref name="Baha'i-houses" /> The final model of the house of worship was unveiled in April, 2020<ref>{{cite news |title=Local Temple design unveiled in India {{!}} BWNS |url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1421/ |access-date=23 February 2021 |work=Bahá’í World News Service |date=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> and its foundation has been laid on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">21st of </del>February<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>2021<ref>{{cite news |title=Ground broken for first local Bahá'í temple in India {{!}} BWNS |url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1491/ |access-date=23 February 2021 |work=Bahá’í World News Service |date=21 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> and is expected to get completed by 2023.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, plans were announced for the construction of a local [[Bahá'í House of Worship]] in Bihar Sharif.<ref name="Baha'i-houses">{{cite news|title=Plans to build new Houses of Worship announced|url=http://news.bahai.org/story/906|access-date=25 March 2016|publisher=Baha'i World News Service|date=22 April 2012}}</ref> This would be only the second House of Worship for India's nearly two million Bahá'ís<ref name="arda">{{cite web|title=Most Baha'i Nations (2005)|url=http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp|publisher=The Association for Religion Data Archives|access-date=23 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414021730/http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp|archive-date=14 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> (the first being the well-known [[Lotus Temple]] in [[Delhi]]),<ref name="Lotus-cmpgn">{{cite news|title=Iconic "Lotus Temple" focus of worldwide campaign|url=http://news.bahai.org/story/856|access-date=25 March 2016|publisher=Bahá'í World News Service|date=6 October 2011}}</ref> and one of the first two local Bahá'í Houses of Worship in Asia (the other being in [[Battambang]], [[Cambodia]]).<ref name="Baha'i-houses" /> The final model of the house of worship was unveiled in April, 2020<ref>{{cite news |title=Local Temple design unveiled in India {{!}} BWNS |url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1421/ |access-date=23 February 2021 |work=Bahá’í World News Service |date=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> and its foundation has been laid on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">21 </ins>February 2021<ref>{{cite news |title=Ground broken for first local Bahá'í temple in India {{!}} BWNS |url=https://news.bahai.org/story/1491/ |access-date=23 February 2021 |work=Bahá’í World News Service |date=21 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> and is expected to get completed by 2023.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Administration==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Administration==</div></td></tr>  </table>

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