Sultanganj
Where the Kanwar Yatra begins and the water is lifted for the walk to Deoghar. Vikramshila's ruins are near.
East Bihar, Anga
Places around Sultanganj
- Ajgaibinath Dham, Sultanganj: Where the kanwar yatra begins, on the north-flowing Ganga
- Ruins of Vikramshila: Buddhist pilgrims and students of the dharma come to one of the two great Pala universities, from which...
- Bateshwar Sthan: To perform jalabhishek at an ancient linga on the Uttarvahini Ganga at the Ganga-Kosi confluence...
- Budhanath Temple: In Shravan the temple draws over a million devotees for Rudrabhishek and Jalabhishek, and the Bhagalpur...
- Champapuri: Champapuri is the only place where all five kalyanaks of Bhagwan Vasupujya occurred, which makes it one...
- Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Bhagalpur: It is the mother church of the Catholic diocese covering eastern Bihar, and the focus of the diocesan...
More to see and do
Manjusha art of Bhagalpur
The only Indian folk painting told as a strip, in three colours, of the Bihula-Bishahari legend; GI-registered in 2021.
Pink, green and yellow line paintings on temple-shaped boxes of bamboo, jute and paper, made for the Bishahari puja of the Anga country.
Bhagalpur silk
The tussar silk of the Silk City, GI-registered in 2013.
Tussar and other silks woven in the weaving quarters of Bhagalpur.
Jardalu mango
Bhagalpur's pale, fragrant mango, sent every year to the President; GI-registered in 2018.
A light-yellow, elongated mango known by its smell, grown in the orchards of Bhagalpur and Sultanganj block.
Katarni rice and chura
The fragrant rice of the Munger-Bhagalpur plain, GI-registered in 2018, best known here as beaten rice.
An aromatic short-grain rice from Munger, Banka and south Bhagalpur, eaten as rice or flattened into chura.
Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti
The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
Chura, dahi and gur eaten together on the morning of Sankranti, with tilkut.
Yatras through Sultanganj
- Buddhist Yatra: The road the Buddha walked, in the order he walked it
- Jain Yatra: Mahavira was born here, renounced here and died here
Experiences
- Lifting water at Sultanganj: A hundred kilometres on foot in saffron, carrying Ganga water on a pole
- Silk at Bhagalpur: Tussar woven on handlooms in a city that has done it for two hundred years
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