Baijnath, Kangra

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Baijnath

(the ancient Kiragrama). — Village in Kangra District, Punjab, situated in 32 2' N. and 76 43' E., 1 1 miles east of Palampur. Population (1901), 6,555. Two Hindu temples here bear inscriptions in the ancient Sarada character, which give the pedigree of the Raja- nakas or princes of Kiragrama, who were kinsmen and feudatories of the kings of Jalandhara or Trigartta. The date of the inscriptions is disputed.Formerly attributed to the early part of the ninth century, they are assigned by a recent investigator to a period three or four centuries later. One of these temples was seriously damaged by the earthquake of April 4, 1905. \Epigraphia Indica, vol. i, pp. 97-119; Journal, Royal Asiatic Society (1903), p. 16, note.]