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Ratnagiri Buddhist Excavations
February 18 , 2025
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- Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered significant Buddhist remains during renewed excavations at Ratnagiri site in Jajpur district, Odisha.
- They recently discovered three colossal Buddha heads, a giant palm, an ancient wall, and some inscriptions.
- ASI has now decided to take up fresh surveys at the Ratnagiri Buddhist heritage site more than 60 years after it was first excavated.
- Ratnagiri, literally “Hill of Jewels”, is located between two rivers, the Brahmani and its tributary Birupa.
- It is one of the three points of Odisha’s famous Diamond Triangle along with Udayagiri and Lalitgiri.
- The earliest historical structures excavated at the Diamond Triangle sites date to the 5th century CE, during the reign of Narasimha Gupta Baladitya (c.495-530 CE).
- The Ratnagiri monastery is the only one of Buddhist monastery in India with a curvilinear roof.
- The first excavations were carried out between 1958 and 1961 by Debala Mitra, an archaeologist who eventually served as the ASI’s first woman director general (1981-83).
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