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stara GINRUT....
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आदि देशों से होता था और इन्हीं पथों से विदेशों में भी इन सराक शिल्पियों द्वारा बनाई गयी मूर्तियाँ भेजी जाती थी । पाश्चात्य विद्वानों ने इन पथों की खोजकर इनके विषय में लिखा है
The Jain element is more prominently marked at some of the neighburing place, and there are very considerable remains also in other parts of the district, in some places purely Jain, in others Brahmanical, superimposed on or alongside early Jain remains. Mr. Beglar, who made a comprehensive study of these and similar remains from Tamluk to Patna and Gaya in 1862-63, propounds an interesting and fairly probable explanation of these numerous remains of an advanced civilisation in a part of the county so little known in later years, and which from its natural features could never have lent itself readily to any general state of civilisation in the early days from which these relics date. This theory is that there must have been regular routes between Tamluk (Tararalipta) a place of very early importance in the east, and Patna (Pataliputra), Gaya, Rajgir and Benares in the north and west. Among the routes which he traces, so far as this district is concerned, is that from Tamluk to Patna via Ghatal, Bishunpur, Chatna (in Bankura), Raghu-nath pur, Tailkupi, Jharia, Rajauli (Gaya) and Rajgir. According to tradition the temples at Telkupi are ascribed to merchants and not to Rajas or holy men, and the inference is that a large trading settlement sprung up at this point where the Damodar river would present, at any rate in the travellers and marchants. Another great route passing through this District would be more direct road to Benares marking the line of this are the extensive remains. Jain and Brahmanical, at Pakbira, Buddhpur and other places on the Kasai river near Manbazar;it would pass further west strike the subarnarekha river at or near Dalmi; Safarn and Suisa
