Ahraura
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Ahraura (अहरौरा) is a city in Chunar Tehsil of Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Location
Located at a distance of 60 km from Mirzapur.
Variants
History
Ahraura has many famous holy places: there is a temple situated in rocky mountain and there is stone inscription of Emperor Ashoka, one of the Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka. An important monument accounts for stone-scripture by Emperor Ashoka, in a script possibly Pali, a mark of Buddhist Influence, which in that period, might have been a site of distribution of food by the monastery, thus contributing the name Bhandari. Near the Southern End of the city, near the Water Reservoir, is a Stone Pillar, that too is believed to be erected by Emperor Ashoka, with a script/note in Pali.
बेलखारा
बेलखारा (AS, p.643), जिला मिर्जापुर, उ.प्र. अहरौरा के निकट इस स्थान पर प्राचीन अभिलिखित स्तंभ स्थित है। [1]