20 Facts About Gaya India

Gaya India is sanctified in the Jain, Hindu, and Buddhist religions.

Mahabodhi Temple complex at Bodh Gaya India is a World Heritage Site.

Gaya India visited Gaya, and built the first temple at Bodh Gaya to commemorate the Buddha's attainment of supreme enlightenment.

In 750 CE, Gaya India became a part of the Pala Empire, under the rule of its founder, Gopala.

Gaya India is the birthplace of eminent nationalist Bihar Vibhuti, Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Bihar's first deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister.

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Until 1864, Gaya India was a part of the district of Behar and Ramgarh.

City of Gaya India is a holy place of Hinduism, with a great number of Hindu deities represented in the engravings, paintings and carvings of its shrines.

Gaya India is the location at which Rama, with Sita and Lakshmana, offered pind-daan for his father, Dasharatha.

Gaya India has since remained a site of key importance for the performance of the pind-daan ritual.

Gaya India is considered to be one of the most ideal places to perform the Sraddha.

Nearby Bodh Gaya India, so named to distinguish it from the Hindu town centre of Gaya India, is one of the four holiest sites of Buddhism and the site where the Buddha attained enlightenment.

Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya India was listed as a World Heritage Site by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its 26th session, on 26 June 2002.

Gaya India is the second-largest contributor to the economy of Bihar, after Patna.

Gaya India has a large number of household industries, producing incense sticks, local sweets tilkut and lai, stone-work, hand weaving, power-loom weaving, textiles and garments, small-scale manufactured goods, and plastic products.

Gaya India has a road network providing good connectivity with the state of Bihar and other parts of the country.

Gaya India is connected to Patna by National Highway 22, and to Nawada, Rajgir and Bihar Sharif by NH 120.

Gaya India Junction railway station railway station is a major junction station serving the city.

Gaya India Junction has been redeveloped as Model railway station recently and houses all the major facilities like waiting rooms, computerized reservation facility, food plaza, dormitory, retiring rooms, cafeteria, bookshop, etc.

Gaya India falls under the jurisdiction of the Mughalsarai railway division of the East Central Railway zone.

Gaya India Airport serves as the only place of Bihar from where Hajj pilgrims take direct flight to Makkah and Madina in Saudi Arabia.