Asthal Bohar

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Bohar
Village
Bohar is located in Haryana
Bohar
Bohar
Location in Haryana, India
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Bohar is located in India
Bohar
Bohar
Bohar (India)
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Coordinates: 28°52′23″N 76°38′31″E / 28.873°N 76.642°E / 28.873; 76.642
CountryIndia
StateHaryana
DistrictRohtak
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
11,267 of Bohar[1] and 2,894 of Garhi Bohar[2]
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 codeIN-HR
Vehicle registrationHR

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.


References

Citations

  1. "Bohar (Part)". 2011 Census of India. Government of India. Retrieved 19 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. "Garhi Bohar". 2011 Census of India. Government of India. Retrieved 19 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  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.

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