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Purana Qila: digging for Indraprastha

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The Delhi fort that is said to be Indraprastha has no certain Mahabharata-age layer.

B.B. Lal's 1954 excavation found Painted Grey Ware at Purana Qila, but not in a stratified layer. A 2014 dig found Gupta and Kushan finds and continuous habitation from Mauryan to Mughal, not Mahabharata-age.

Who: Pandavas

Bound to

Founding of Indraprastha origin

Places: Purana Qila, Delhi

Where this comes from

• modern-popular · Sanskriti Magazine: The search for Indraprastha

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