Asthal Bohar, also known as Bohar, is a village on the outskirts of
Rohtak city in
Rohtak District,
Haryana
Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...
, India.
Asthal means Bairagi Monastery.
Jain, Nath Shaivite and Brahminical images were found in Asthal Bohr monastery. A seventh century AD statue of
Parshvanatha, twenty-third Jain
tirthankara
In Jainism, a ''Tirthankara'' (; ) is a saviour and supreme preacher of the ''Dharma (Jainism), dharma'' (righteous path). The word ''tirthankara'' signifies the founder of a ''Tirtha (Jainism), tirtha'', a fordable passage across ''Saṃsā ...
, was found in the village.
It has a railway station on
Rewari-Rohtak line.
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Villages in Rohtak district
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