Asthal Bohar

Bohar
Village
Bohar Location in Haryana, India Show map of Haryana Bohar Bohar (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 28°52′23″N76°38′31″E / 28.873°N 76.642°E / 28.873; 76.642
Country	India
State	Haryana
District	Rohtak
Population  (2011)
• Total	11,267 of Bohar [1] and 2,894 of Garhi Bohar [2]
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-HR
Vehicle registration	HR

Asthal Bohar, also known as Bohar, is a village on the outskirts of Rohtak city in Rohtak District, Haryana, India. ^{[1] [3]} Asthal means Bairagi Monastery. ^[4] Jain, Nath Shaivite and Brahminical images were found in Asthal Bohr monastery. ^[5] A seventh century AD statue of Parshvanatha, twenty-third Jain tirthankara, was found in the village. ^[6]

It has a railway station on Rewari-Rohtak line.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

Citations

1. "Bohar (Part)". 2011 Census of India . Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
2. "Garhi Bohar". 2011 Census of India . Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
3. Rohtak District, Haryana Archived 29 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , publisher: CGWB, retrieved: 4 May 2014
4. "Page 178 of Haryana Gazetteer (Rohtak Division) of 1910" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 May 2021.
5. Vyas 1995, p. 67.
6. Vyas 1995, pp. 67–68.

Sources

• Vyas, Dr. R. T., ed. (1995), Studies in Jaina Art and Iconography and Allied Subjects, The Director, Oriental Institute, on behalf of the Registrar, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, ISBN   81-7017-316-7