{"id":4846,"date":"2011-04-25T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:03:07","slug":"asi-plans-a-new-museum-at-lalitgiri-one-exists-at-udaygiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/4846","title":{"rendered":"ASI plans a new museum at Lalitgiri; one exists at Ratnagiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx?relid=71775\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx?relid=71775<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Buddhist relics found during an excavation at  Lalitgiri in Orissa are proposed to be housed in a museum. The Excavated  Buddhist Site, Lalitgiri was notified as Centrally Protected in the  year 1937.  The site has been extensively excavated by the Archeological  Survey of India (ASI) during the year 1985-1992.  The remains of a  massive Stupa including a relic caskets consisting of four containers  made of Khondalite, Steatite, Silver and Gold containing corporal  remains have been recovered during the excavation, besides other  important structure and archeological remains.  At present, the relic  caskets are in the safe custody of Superintending Archaeologist,  Bhubaneswar Circle, ASI, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.  Further, In order to set  up a site museum at Lalitgiri the site has been inspected and  preparation of detailed drawing (Plan, Elevation, Design) of the  proposed museum building have been initiated by the Bhubaneswar Circle,  ASI.<\/p>\n<p>The relic &ndash;caskets containing Buddhist bone relics would be housed and  displayed for the public under adequate security and surveillance<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that a similar museum exists at Ratnagiri. See <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/asi.nic.in\/asi_museums_ratnagiri.asp\">http:\/\/asi.nic.in\/asi_museums_ratnagiri.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" \/>\n<p>In the facebook note <a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/puspagiri-links\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/puspagiri-links<\/a> we have collected various links about Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri, Udaygiri and Langudi hills. We are trying to find out&nbsp; what archaeologists and historians think regarding the&nbsp; existence of ancient Buddhist Universities in Odisha. The information about Madhavapura Mahavihara (in Udaygiri) at <a href=\"http:\/\/asi.nic.in\/asi_exca_2005_orissa.asp\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/asi.nic.in\/asi_exca_2005_orissa.asp<\/a> looks interesting in that regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx?relid=71775. The Buddhist relics found during an excavation at Lalitgiri in Orissa are proposed to be housed in a museum. The Excavated Buddhist Site, Lalitgiri was notified as Centrally Protected in the year 1937. The site has been extensively excavated by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) during the year 1985-1992. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,138,9,332,381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage-sites","category-historical-places","category-district-jajpur","category-museums","category-orissa-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}