now on display at kumhrar however the asi made a model of the hall in 2004 and has placed it in a glass frame in the exhibition hall within the precincts housing the other artefacts discovered during excavations spooners finds from kumhrar and adjoining bulandibagh consisting of punchmarked coins terracotta figurines including the head of a smiling boy and a dancing girl stone and glass beads finished and unfinished seals including a glass seal with a mauryan inscription and a spoked cart have been preserved for posterity bulandibagh already tapped by spooner was reexcavated in 192627 by j a page and m ghosh resulting in the discovery of an easternwestern wooden structure running as excavated area for a distance of about 137 metres it is a wall made of heavy wooden sleepers placed vertically in a double row with similar sleepers joining them horizontally at the bottom and is thought to be a part of the wooden palisade seen by noted historian and ambassador of seleucus nicator megasthenes who wrote in his indica that pataliputra was long but narrow it was 80 stadiums nearly 9 miles long and 15 stadiums nearly 2 miles broad and in the form of a parallelogram the circumference of the wellplanned city was nearly 23 miles the indica written in 300 bce has the earliest literary evidences on the ancient city records also state that megasthenes met king sandrocottus chandragupta maurya in greek records when he was in pataliputra further references by chanakyas arthashastra and patanjalis mahabhashya are replete with references of the beautiful imposing city being the capital of the magadhan era to the nandas mauryas sungas kanvas guptas down to the postgupta era because of its strategic importance it remained a seat of learning art architecture religion and commerce for centuries where intellectuals like pingala panini patanjali vyadi varsha upavarsha and katyayana acquired exceptional scholarship lord buddha passed through pataliputra during his last journey from rajgriha to kusinagar in 1935 a similar structure was found at gosainkhanda 800 metres to the east of bulandibagh but in a reversed fashion vertical sleepers capped by horizontal ones remnants of the wooden structure have been found to have extended to other localities of patna though no coherent plan is available says superintending archaeologist archaeological survey of india patna circle s k manjul there are 71 heritage sites in bihar remnants of wooden palisades have been discovered at lohanipur bahadurpur sandalpur bulandibagh kumhrar and from the peripheral areas of patna town hidden mauryan remains had also been excavated at the jail compound on frazer road where archaeologists have found traces of northern black polished ware nbpw and other archaeological remains like all ancient civilizations these sites from the magadhan to the gupta era are strewn all over present patna very like aichen in germany the ruins of the holy roman empire remain buried underneath the modern industrial town of aichen ancient pataliputra probably stretched from danapur in the north to didarganj from where the impressive yakshini or