Khagaul

Khagaul is a Nagar Parishad city in district of Patna, Bihar. The Khagaul city is divided into 27 wards for which elections are held every 5 years.

Khagaul Nagar Parishad has total administration over 7,951 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorize to build roads within Nagar Parishad limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.

Khagaul is located at 25.58°N 85.05°E / 25.58; 85.05.[2] It has an average elevation of 55 metres (180 feet).

As of 2001 India census,[1] Khagaul had a population of 48,330. Males constituted 53% of the population and females 47%. Khagaul had an average literacy rate of 71.5%. In Khagaul, 13% of the population was under 6 years of age.

As of 2011 India Census,[3] The Khagaul Nagar Parishad had population of 44,364 of which 23,492 are males while 20,872 are females.

Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 5198 which is 11.72 % of total population of Khagaul.

Female Sex Ratio is of 888 against state average of 918.

Literacy rate of Khagaul city is 86.82 % higher than state average of 61.80 %. In Khagaul, Male literacy is around 91.81 % while female literacy rate is 81.23 %.

Khagaul is a historical place. In ancient times, before Christ, Khagaul was called Kusumpura or Kusumpur, near Patliputra, which was the capital city of the mighty Magadh Empire. Pushpapur was located between Patliputra and Kusumpur. In modern times Patliputra is called Patna, whereas Kusumpura or Kusumpur is called Khagaul and Pushpapur is called Phulwari or Phulwari Shree or Phulwari Sharif.

Shaktar and Chanakya (also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta), two famous Prime Ministers of the Magadh Empire belonged to Kusumpur or present day Khagaul during Fourth Century BC. Chanakya had provided initial education and training to Chandagupta Maurya (Great Emperor of Magadh Empire and Founder of the Maurya Dynasty) at this very place. Under the guidance of Chanakya, the mighty Magadh Empire was spread from present day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan up to Iran after defeating the forces of Alexander and Seleucus. The tyrannical rule of the King Dhanananda over Magadh was brought to an end by the rebellion of Chanakya after arrest, humiliation and death sentence inflicted against his father Chanak by the tyrannical King Dhanananda. Thereafter, Chandragupta Maurya, disciple of Chanakya, was made King Emperor of the Magadh Empire and Chanakya became its Prime Minister. Chanakya was a great scholar, economist, administrator, jurist, lawmaker and a very sharp minded nationalist and shrewd politician. He was a student of the Takshashila or Taxila University, and also worked as an Acharya or professor in the same university. Under the guidance of Chanakya, the mighty Magadh Empire had become the most powerful, most influential, most developed and the richest empire of the world, and Patliputra had become the most beautiful city.

After 5th century AD, Kusumpur was renamed as Khagaul after Khagol or Khagol Shastra i.e. Astronomy, as it was an eminent centre of Astronomical Observatory (Khagoliya Vedhashala) established by Aryabhata or Aryabhatta for Astronomical Studies and Astronomical Research. Aryabhatta is called Father of Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry, Concept of Zero (0) and decimal system.

Aryabhata, also called Aryabhata I or Aryabhata the Elder (born in the year 476 AD, at Kusumapura, near Patliputra or present day Patna in India) was astronomer and the earliest Indian mathematician whose work and history are available to modern scholars. He is also known as Aryabhata I or Aryabhata the Elder to distinguish him from a 10th-century Indian mathematician of the same name. He flourished in Kusumapura—near Patliputra (Patna), then the capital of the Gupta dynasty—where he composed at least two works, Aryabhatiya (c. 499) and the now lost Aryabhatasiddhanta.