Pushpagiri
Pushpagiri .Ninety kms. From bhubaneswar, nestling on three hills, are the ruins of what must hagve once been an imposing budhist monastery complex called puspagiri in fact, it is yet another triangle which constitutes Lalitagir, ratnagiri and Udaigiri. Amidst the syl . surroundings of Mahanadi basin triangle is supposed to have ” consituted the most important seat of Buddhist learnings next only to Taxila and Nalanda.Inaccesible and therefore,not much travelled, the area has tremendous archaeological significance.
A trip to Puspagiri may involve wading through muddy terrain and a couple of boat trips across rivers like Kelua and Genguti, tributaries of the river Mahanadi. The Chinese traveller, Hiuen Tsang visited this area in 639 AD and referred to it as Pusi-po-kili in his traveloguewhich embraced all the above three Vihars of Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri and Udaigiri.
