Bidupur

Bidupur
Community Development Block
Bidupur Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 25.6428699°N 85.3339504°E / 25.6428699; 85.3339504
Country	India
State	Bihar
Region	Mithila
District	vaishali
District Sub-division	Hajipur
Anchal	Bidupur
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Raghopur assembly constituency
Government
• Type	Community development block
• MLA	Tejashwi Yadav
• MP	Pashupati Kumar Paras
Population  (2011)
• Total	268,849
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Bajjika
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-BR

Bidupur is a community development block in the Vaishali district in the Indian state of Bihar. Bidupur is one of the 16 blocks of Vaishali district. There are total 24 Gram Panchayats in bidupur block And There are 116 villages in Bidupur block. Kacchi dargah-Bidupur bridge will become the largest bridge of India in 2024. Bidupur is fastest developing after Hajipur in vaishali.

History

Bidupur is a place of historical importance. One of Gautam Buddha's disciple Anand has got parinirvana here. There is a bhinda in Madhurapur where many things of ancient history have been found. Many early paintings, scriptures, and stones are there. Every year after Durga Puja a mela and kirtan are organised to remember Anand. The kashthariya sahashralingam mandir in Bidupur is also a place of historical importance. There have been plans to expand Patna to Greater Patna, which would entail absorbing Bidupur.

Tourist places

Chechar Village Complex

As per Mahanivannasutem & Buddhist literature this place was known as 'Kotigram in Buddhist period - where Lord Buddha used to take rest on his way to Vaishali, after crossing the Ganga from Patliputra side. Anand, the famous desciple of Lord Buddha, attained 'Maha Parinirvana' close to this place. His mortal remains are said to be enshrined under a Buddhist Stupa at Bajidpur village. This is the place were king Vishal founded the city of Vishalpuri' after his own name. And this was the place where sage Vishwamitra got down from the boat on the northern bank of the Ganga after crossing from Rajgir side and stayed for the night, vice cantos 45 to 49 of Valmiki Ramayana.

The famous Rishipatni Diti (wife of great sage Kashyap) resided here and during her illness she was nursed by Lord Indra, the king of gods. Here were born the 'Marudganas' from the womb of Diti. (Vide Valmiki Ramayana Aadi Knad cantos 45 to 49). At this time this place was known as 'Kushpallav Vana'. In this village complex 9 Buddhist Stupas are in exsitence 3 Stupas in Chechar Village, 3 Stupa in Kutubpur village, one Stupa in Bajidpur village, one Stupa in Mathurapur & one Stupa in Navanagar. According to famous Chinese traveller Hue-T-sang - in Gupta period (320 AD-550 century AD) this place was known as Shewtpur (phi-to Polo)

24 Village Complex of Chechar

Chechar, Kutubpur, Bajidipur, Mathurapur, Navanagar, Pakauli, Kanchanpur, Bidupur, Bhairopur, Kilwat, Bihwarpur, Kataharia, Ramdauli, Ameer, Majalispur, Gopalpur, Baghsaiatkhan, Khalsa, Gobindpur, Maniyarpur, Hasanchak, Mustafapur, Chandpur, Saidpur.

Chechar Buddhist Temple

At the bank of river Ganga Chechar Buddhist Temple is an ancient place. In the temple two rare statues of Lord Buddha are established (of Bhumi Asparsa Madra). These statues were found from the excavation, in t Chechar village. This place is also a natural beauty spot.

Mathurapur Stupa

It is an 80 feet high mound of earth spread over an area of 1 hectare. At present there is a Hindu Temple situated at this place. This place is known as a Stupa of the Ashokan era, which was built by King Ashoka on the original Mortal Remains of Lord Buddha. On top of the Stupa, ruins of ancient Buddhist Monastery can be seen even today. These ruins were discovered while the top of the mound was being flattened in order to construct the temple. At this place, a rock with the engraved foot print was found during the digging of a well. 270 years after the Mahaparinirvana of Lord Buddha, Ashoka collected three-fourth of the original Mortal remains of Lord Buddha from seven different locations and further divided it into 84000 parts and built Pillars and Stupas at 84000 places along the Nirvana Path of Lord Buddha (most of these Stupas were built of clay). It is believed that this Stupa is one among them. Later a Buddhist Monastery was built at this place between the Buddhist Period Gupta Period.

Bajidpur Stupa

It is a 15 16 feet high mound spread over 1.5 acre where Government Middle School, Bajidpur is now situated, it is believed that at this place in the Buddhist era, there was the Stupa of Anand, main disciple of Lord Buddha. However, it is disputed because there is another legend that claims that according to Buddhist Literature, Anand, after Buddha's Mahaparinirvana (543 BC) after serving Buddhist Monasteries wanted to aatin Nirvana in Vaishali & thus desired cross The Ganges to attain Nirvana on the other side. On hearing news Magadh King Ajatashatru came to him & requested him to attain Nirvana in Magadh. By then Lichhavi had also crossed the river Ganges, therefore, Anand could attain Nirvana at his desired place. Considering this, Anand in order to avoid a war between the two states, immolated himself in the middle of the river Gange with the help of his yogic power. Thus half of his mortal remains went to the Republic of Lichhavi and the other half went to the Kingdom of Magadh. With the half of the mortal remains Lichhavi constructed 'Anand Stupa' in Vaishali and Ajatshatru constructed another 'Anand Stupa' in Rajgir, Nalanda.

Note- This place was acclaimed as Anand Stupa with the help of; Dr. Yogendra Mishra, Dr. Jayshree Mishra, Department of History, Magadh University, Patna and Narendra Pal Singh, IAS (In search of Kotigram).

Museum

Rail

Nearest Station of Bidupur is Akshaywat Rai Nagar Station, station code (AYRN) in the Sonpur railway division of East Central Railway. Public transportation is provided f.r by buses, auto rickshaws and local trains. BSRTC has started city bus service on Bidupur via Hajipur.