The book deals about the excavations conducted in mound MNS-I at Mansar. The mound is located at the east of the protected area and is generally known as the Mahavihara Tekdi.
The excavations have yield the palace complex built by Pravarasena II as he shifted his capital to this area.It is from here that Prabhavati Gupta used to go to Rametek to worship her god Nrsimha, whose templ was also built at this place when she became too old.
The palace was surrounded by military barracks and smaller temples and temple shops. To the south of the palace an octagonal Siva people das been found over looking Ramtek.
After the fall of the eastern vakatakas and after the palace was burnt down by Nala King Bhavadattavarman, a stupa was built on top by Buddhists under the influence of Vishnu Kundins of Andhra Pradesh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A K Sharma
Shri A.K. Sharma is an archaeologist of repute. He is internationally known for his original contributions in the field of archaeology and anthropology. During thirty three years of his hectic career, in different capacities in the Archaeological Survey of India he explored and excavated a number of sites throughout the length and breadth of the country, particularly in remote and inaccessible areas of North-East India, Jammu Kashmir and Lakshadweep. To his credit goes the discovery and excavation of the biggest Stone Age site Anangpur, near Delhi, the biggest prehistoric cave of Kachagad in Maharashtra, the sprawling nucleus megalithic site in Chhattisgarh, unique Neolithic site of Gufkral in Kashmir Valley, early historic sites of Sekta in Manipur and Vadagokugiri in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. He is also known for the discovery of horse bones of domesticated horse in Harappan context which have been internationally acknowledged and has changed the whole theory about Aryans and Vaidic period. He worked at Kalibangan excavation from 1961 to 1969. He has to his credit more than 50 published research papers on anthropology, archaeozoology, prehistory and other aspects of archaeology. Presently he is working as Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Historical Research on his project “Megaliths of Chhattisgarh including Bastar:. He is also directing the excavations at Mansar near Nagpur.
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