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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Patna district. 1,015 km (631 miles)
SE of Delhi. * 1,377,000.
n Department of Tourism,
Barrack No. 9D, Old Secretariat,
(0612) 221 7163. ( Mon–Sat.
_ Patliputra Mahotsava (Mar).
∑ bstdc.bih.nic.in
Transport
~ 6 km (4 miles) SW of the city
centre. £ @
The eclectic private collection at the Jalan Museum
P Old Opium Warehouse
On the floor above the main E Kumrahar Gulzarbagh. Open Mon–Fri.
sanctum is a museum with Open Tue–Sun. & Located in a walled compound
the guru’s relics. This site contains the ruins on the riverbank, the opium
of the ancient city of Pataliputra. warehouse of the East India
E Jalan Museum Excavations have unearthed Company is now the Government
Tel (0612) 264 1121. Open by appt. elaborately carved wooden Printing Press. Opium was
Also known as Qila (“Fort”) ramparts, polished sandstone packaged in its three long,
House, this museum has an pillars and the remains of a vast porticoed buildings and sent
eclectic collection, gathered by a Mauryan assembly hall that is by boat to Kolkata.
19th-century ancestor of the said to have stood here in the
Jalan family. It includes Chinese 2nd century BC. A museum Environs
paintings, Mughal jade and here displays some of these Maner, 30 km (19 miles) west
silverware, Napoleon’s bed finds, which date from an era of Patna, is a major centre of
and Marie-Antoinette’s Sèvres when Patna was described by Islamic learning. It has the fine
porcelain. Qila House itself is Megasthenes, the Greek envoy 16th-century mausoleum of
an interesting structure, built to the Mauryan court, as “a the Sufi saint Hazrat Makhdum
on the ruins of a 16th-century city of light, where even Yahya Maneri. It is also famous
fort constructed by the Afghan wooden walls shine bright for laddoos, a confection made
ruler, Sher Shah Sur (see p83). as glass”. of gram flour and molasses.

Patna City Centre
1 Golghar 0 metres 500
2 Patna Museum 0 yards 500
3 Khudabaksh Library

R i v e r G a n g e s
Mahendra Ghat
Ferry Terminal
MANER
Gandhi
Bus Stand Khudabaksh
ASHOK RAJPATH Library
Golghar Gandhi RD Old Opium Warehouse,
BUDDHA MARG MA HAT M A GANDHI M A IDA N Birla KHANJANCHI ROAD Harmandir Sahib,
Maidan
Mandir
Jalan Museum
Patna ARYA KUMAR ROAD
Museum S P VERMA ROAD EXHIBITION ROAD (KR ANTI MARG) SAIDPUR ROAD
BAILEY ROAD FRASER ROAD RAMKRISHNA AVENUE
BIRCHAND PATEL MARG Ganj Talab Udhyaan Patna Junction
Iskcon
R A J E N D R A PAT H
DAK BUNGALOW ROAD
Temple
Buddha
Smriti
Adalat
GPO
Garden
Railway Station
Lok Nayak Railway Station OLD BYPASS RD Rajendra Nagar
Jayaprakash Airport Kumrahar
6 km (4 miles)
For keys to symbols see back flap
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