Book Title: Jain Pilgrimage Author(s): Hastinapur Jain Shwetambar Tirth Committee Publisher: Hastinapur Jain Shwetambar Tirth CommitteePage 28
________________ 21 Dotheri, Rer, Chhat, Dugri, Panipat, Amin, Bagpat, Ahichhatra, Kampil, Barnavat. It is significant to note that greater majority of these sites are alluded to the Mahabharat story. This all suggests that there was approximate contemporaneity between all these sites at that period. In period II which is dated to circa 5th-3rd century, punch-marked coins and sherds of shiny black polished ware-N.B.P. were obtained, At the end of this period there seems to have been a great conflagration which is marked by a thick layer burnt earth run throughout the mound. Among other things, the finds from period III comprise coins of Mitra dynasty and Kushan kings and terracottas of Sunga and Kushan period. Structures of large sized brick as well as terracottas were noticed in both periods II and III. The site remained deserted for about one thousand years and was reoccupied in the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.comPage Navigation
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