Ramnagar Village, Aonla
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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Ramnagar Village
Village in the Aonla tahsil of Bareilly Dis- trict, United Provinces, situated in 28 22' N. and 79 8' E., 8 miles north of Aonla. The place is celebrated for the uiins in its neighbourhood. A vast mound rises on the north of the village, with a circumference of about 3-| miles, which still bears the name of Ahlchhattra and is identified with the capital of the ancient kingdom of Panchala and the place visited by Hiuen Tsiang in the seventh century. In one poition of the mound a conical heap of brick towers .68 feet above the plain, crowned by the ruins of a Hindu temple. Large quantities of stone carvings, Buddhist railings, and ornamental bricks have been found in various parts of these mounds, and a series of coins bearing inscup- tions which may be dated approximately in the first or second century B. c The kings who struck them have been conjecturally identified with the Sunga dynasty mentioned in the Puranas.
[Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, vol. i, p. 255 ; Coins of Ancient India, p. 79 ; V. A. Smith, Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1897, p. 303; Progress Report, Epigraphical Branch, North- Western Provinces and Oudh, 1891-2.]
