Dhauli is an important early historic urban village on the southern bank of the river Daya. It is located at a distance of about 7 km from Bhubaneswar. The archaeological remains found at Dhauli are dated back to 3rd century B.C, during the time of King Ashoka.
This is also the place where devastating of Kalinga war in 261 B.C took place. After seeing the misery and horror resulting from war King Ashoka renounced the path of violence to embrace Buddhism.
Sites of interest that I have visited here are:
The other places of interest nearby are:
This is also the place where devastating of Kalinga war in 261 B.C took place. After seeing the misery and horror resulting from war King Ashoka renounced the path of violence to embrace Buddhism.
Sites of interest that I have visited here are:
The other places of interest nearby are:
32 comments:
It must be amazing to see something that old. Your pictures look so interesting.
Nice post, a lot of details to study!
Thanks for sharing your visit to Dhauli. Sounds like an amazing historic village. Great photos.
What an interesting place to visit. I like it when you can learn the history of a place.
Beautiful and interesting architecturally.. ...it is sad that so much devastation had to take place before the King embraced the path of peace...but it seems it is still that way everywhere.
Enjoy seeing your family photo.
Always interesting textures and shapes...
beautiful photographs!! it ll reminds me my orissa trip..
Marvelous pictures.
Nice post!
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Wow! You are seeing some wonderful sites and excellent photos ~ love your family photo! namaste.
Happy Week to you ^_^
It looks like a fascinating place and your captures are terrific as always, Rajesh! Hope you have a great week!
These temples have unique architecture. Great shot!
so much history here
impressionnante cette architecture
Yes, pretty pictures, spectacular photos, interesting history!
Another great tour!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
Sounds like an interesting spot on history! Excellent collage
Remarkable sights! from Cochrane, Alberta, Canada.
Amazing country and ancient history.
Hi Rajesh! Beautiful as ever! Thanks for sharing this !
I wish you a great week.
Wil, ABCW Team.
WHAT? A picture with people! Nice.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
Amazing place and lovely photos.
Third century BCE? Amazing! Some of these buildings have a different type of architecture than much of what you post. What are the three discs on top of the temple in the first shot?
this brings back fond memories of 15 day trip to Puri-Chilika-Konark-Dhauli & bhuvaneshwar during our master college days!!!
it was such fun!!
lemme try to dig into the hard copies of photos and scan them & put up a post!!
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Thank you all for appreciating this historic place.
I like the stupa, they are so architecturally beautiful.
Nice post and amazing pics Rajesh!!
You do travel a lot!! Love the fact that we still have monuments from the 3rd Century BC. Brilliant.
Been there... you freshened up my old memories :)
I've visited Dhauli many times...nice photos... :-)
we have our mind towards the big and very popular destinations to visit there but actually there is a lot to visit nearby . very nice post with amazing pics
Great to be reminded about this place which has a special position in history. This is the place, on the banks of Daya river, where the Kalinga war took place. The soldiers of Kalinga which is today's Odisha, fought valiantly against Ashoka's army. One lakh people (100,000) died in this great war. Such was the horrifying scene that it melted the otherwise cruel Ashoka's heart. This made him completely gravitate to Buddhism. He was earlier known as "Chandashoka" for his cruelty. This incident turned him from "Chandashoka" to "Dharmashoka". Wish some of our modern day ruthless politicians visit this place and get some inspiration to change.
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