Ambaran Tourism, Jammu & Kashmir India

Ambaran also locally known as Pambaran is a village of Akhnoor tehsil, Jammu district is said to have been founded by Amba Jagdev Pawar a scion of Pawar dynasty of Dhar Ujjain and seems to have been the original capital of Akhnoor. It was named Ambari after the family diety Amba, one of the names of Goddess Durga. The name got changed gradually into Ambaran. Ambaran is the eighth place in the World, where relics of Buddha have been found in a stupa. Historians are of the opinion that the place might have been an important centre of Buddhism between the 1st and 7th century B.C. A cultural sequence of four historical periods has already been unravelled at Ambaran. It is believed to be the only early Buddhist site in Jammu region. Excavations have unearthed terracotta figures,small sculptures, pottery and brunt brick structures dating back to pre Kushan and post Gupta period.