Gaya - World History Encyclopedia

Contents:

• GAYA
• DEFN OF 'GAYA'
• THGS TO DO GAYA, INDIA - GAYA ATTRACTNSTHGS TO DO GAYA
• GAYA GOOGLE SATELLE MAP
• GAYA-GAYA MAP — SATELLE IMAG OF GAYA-GAYA
• TES GAYA BELAJARTES GAYA BELAJARTES GAYA BELAJARTES GAYA BELAJARTES GAYA BELAJAR
• GAYA MAP — SATELLE IMAG OF GAYA

GAYA

There are 45 sacred plac between Pretsil hill (north) and Bodh Gaya (south), but most are Gaya self. Others are the rocky temple-vered hills of Ramsilla and Brahmaji, the latter intified wh the Gayashirsa hill on which the Buddha preached. The town of Bodh Gaya, 6 (10 km) south of Gaya, is famo as the se of the Buddha’s enlightenment.

Gaya has several librari and several lleg affiliated wh Magadh Universy. Gaya (aka Kaya or Karak) was a nferatn which led central-southern Korea durg the Three Kgdoms perd om the 1st to 6th century CE. The pensula was domated by Gaya's more powerful neighbourg kgdoms of Goguryeo (Koguryo), Baekje (Paekche), and Silla, but Gaya, often the fotten enty this perd, was neverthels rich iron ore and their craftsmen beme highly skilled at fashng iron objects such as armour and weapons.

The high level of culture achieved by the Gaya stat would fluence Japan, their most important tradg partner. The tradnal dat for the Gaya nferacy are 42-532 CE, however, morn historians prefer to emphasise the enty's more certa existence om the 2nd century CE. The nferatn nsisted of six trib, the most powerful of which were the Dae Gaya and Guya trib, wh the latter later known as the Bon Gaya ('Origal').

DEFN OF 'GAYA'

The overall area of Gaya ntrol was wt of the Naktong River and south of Mt. The Gaya nferatn produced fe ironwork, fluential stoneware, & the celebrated strged stment the gayagm.

The Gaya nferatn prospered due to s fertile agricultural lands, marime tra, and above all, s rich iron ore poss. There are few tails available on the workg of the Gaya stat or daily life, but we n image a siar mol to the ntemporary Three Kgdoms where a royal fay domated a hierarchil aristocracy which, turn, erned the provc domated by a farmg peasantry. There are some clu as to Gaya relig life offered by artefacts revered om tombs.

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In addn, a mural one Gaya tomb has the typil motifs seen Buddhist art such as lot leav and clouds. Throughout their history, the Gaya stat were nstantly harassed by their neighbours the Silla and Baekje kgdoms and nsequently never had the opportuny to form a more centralised state which polil stabily might have permted. From the mid-4th century CE, Baekje beme more terrorial amb durg the reign of Kg Gnchogo and attacked Gaya lands.

Then when the Silla kgdom expand the 6th century CE, Gaya's alliance wh Baekje did no good at all and Bon-Gaya was nquered and stroyed (532 CE), as was Daegaya (562 CE) and the other important Gaya towns. The issue is loured by natnalistic bias so that some historians claim that Gaya was a Japane lony while others propose that horse rirs om the Eurasian steppe me to Japan via Gaya and troduced the burial tumul to that culture.

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Evince is lackg eher way, although most scholars agree that the Gaya was the more advanced culture and recent fds of iron horse armour, notably om a 5th century CE tomb, suggt that the Gaya did master the e of that animal.

More certa is that iron was the most important Gaya export to Japan.

GAYA-GAYA MAP — SATELLE IMAG OF GAYA-GAYA

Early relatns wh Han Cha is evinced by 1st-century CE Che fds at Bon-Gaya and by the prence of the slopg kiln ed by Gaya potters.

Gaya artists produced grey stoneware clay pottery the form of stemmed cups, horn-shaped cups, tall jars wh pierced stems, and spouted vsels the form of ducks, sho, warrrs, boats, and even ho.

Gaya potters likely passed on this novatn to Japan where the famo sueki (or sue) stoneware would be produced as a rult. Objects were also ma of silver and gold by Gaya craftsmen, cludg high and trite crowns. Gaya iron products clu swords, riveted body armour, helmets, and arrowheads.

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Another succsful export was the gayagm (kayagum), a zher wh 12 silk strgs thought to have been vented by Kg Gasil the 6th century CE, which would be taken up by micians Japan and which remas a potent symbol of Korean culture even today. The Gaya regn is rich tombs; over 1, 000 have been intified at Bon-Gaya alone. In the 4th century CE, the tombs of the Gaya typilly took the form of rectangular or oval p grav set to natural mounds.

From the mid-5th century CE, the Gaya nstcted stone chamber tombs wh later exampl havg a horizontal entrance. As already mentned, many tombs have equtrian equipment such as iron armour, saddle parts, bs, and stirps suggtg the horse was an important part of Gaya culture and warfare. Book the experienc for a close-up look at Attractns GayaPots of Intert & LandmarksPots of Intert & LandmarksHistoric S • Relig SWhat travelers are saygakghosalStoke-on-Trent, UK57 ntributnsMay not be que as signifint pared to the Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya but is still a nice Hdu Temple Gaya dited to Lord Vishnu & not a difficult temple to get to.

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I travelled to Gaya towards the end of December, 2022 to perform the pd daan.

For orr to do the r an anized and relatively hassle ee manner, I was advised to approach Bharat Sevashram Sangha (BSS) at Gaya and that I did.

The tra that took me to Gaya om Howrah (Doon Exprs, parture 8:25 pm IST) was late by about 4 hours and I was able to reach Gaya around 8:15 am (IST) stead of the schled time of 4:55 am (IST).

On fdg out that a tra om Kolkata has arrived, the BSS Gaya Statn office started makg rerd announcements over microphone to gui people to that person there directed me to the BSS office at Gaya by llg an to (three-wheeler vehicle). Due to some reason (maybe I was unable to give more precise intifitn ditns) the Pandas were unable to trace my anctral herage their rerds (my father had vised Gaya).

I was directed to the ‘Namastay Hotel’ jt outsi the Gaya Statn (oppose foothpath of the BSS office) and plaly visible om the Statn. Availg of the ‘service’ of the BSS is highly remend to anyone visg Gaya for pd daan.

Tripadvisor performs checks on RLondon, England, Uned Kgdom1 ntributnEveryone om our fay who me to Gaya last Our fay last 50+ years, stayed Bharat Sevashram Sangha for pd daan. As most of may be aware that the worst part of your entire Gaya experience uld be the pandas. Our Pand Sripada Mishra (selected by the Ashram) was very good, we were very happy wh his a nutshell, if you're gog to Gaya for pd daan be prepare to rist the pandas' aggrsive, I absolutely remend people seekg guidance om Bharat Sevashram Sangha for pd daan.

Meena1981Bokaro Steel Cy, India492 ntributnsBarabar hills is famo for rock-cut is loted at a distance about 25km om Gaya are four ancient v lled Karan Chpar, Lomas Rishi, Sudhama and Visva Zopri.

Tripadvisor performs checks on JNew Delhi, India144 ntributnsThis eatg place (part of a popular Reliance Trends Mall) is at a Central Lotn Gaya. आ गया (A gaya) meang English (इंग्लिश मे मीनिंग) is SWUNG (आ गया ka matlab english me SWUNG hai).