Viratnagar
Viratnagar previously known as Bairat or Bairath is a town in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan, India.History
According to Huen Tsang, visitor from China, Tonk was under Bairath State or Viratnagar previously known as Bairat or Bairath.
The present-day site of Bairat corresponds to the ancient city of Virāṭanagara, which was the capital of the Iron Age Matsya kingdom, which was one of the solasa Mahajanapadas according to the 6th BCE Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya. Matsya kingdom had Kuru and Surasena mahajanapadas to its north and east respectively.Medieval era
Bairat was a part of the Mauryan Empire. The ruins of the Bijak-ki-pahadi, a Buddhist Chaitya from the 3rd century BCE located in Bairat, are the oldest free-standing Buddhist structures in India. The town is also home to ruins of a Buddhist monastery, a wood and timber shrine, and two rock-cut edicts from Emperor Ashoka; these date from the Mauryan period. However, Akhnoor, a town in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir is also considered by many as the ancient Virat Nagar.The town has a number of Mughal structures, including a Chhatri with some of the earliest surviving murals in Rajasthan, and a lodge where the Mughal emperor Akbar hunted and stayed overnight on his yearly pilgrimage to Ajmer.Geography
Bairat is located at. It has an average elevation of.