Ekangarsarai is a census town and corresponding community development block in Nalanda district of Bihar state, India.
Most of the extant sculptures found in the block have been stylistically dated to the Pala period, in the 9th-13th centuries CE, and they represent a mixture of Buddhist and Brahmanic elements.
At another auxiliary site, 500m south of the main mound, there is a heavily damaged black basalt stele depicting Vishnu (as Trivikrama), flanked by Lakshmi and Sarasvati, as well as a kneeling Garuda.
The archaeological site includes abandoned temple complex, now overgrown with vegetation, a low structural mound, and scattered sculptural and architectural remains.
Additionally, a local temple complex known as "Jagdambā sthān", half a kilometer north of Ekangardih Mor on the left side of the Gaya-Bihar Sharif road, houses a number of Brahmanic as well as Buddhist sculptures, presently revered as murtis.
The various find sites at Ekangardih feature a mix of Buddhist and Brahmanic elements that are chronologically indistinguishable, indicating that the religions coexisted here at the time.
Remains found here include brick fragments, potsherds, and both Buddhist and Brahmanic sculptures depicting a crowned Buddha as well as Harihara and Ganesh.
Additionally, Biswas and Majumder identified the village of Alama, located some 6 km north of Badi Math, with the ancient Armikagrāma.
[3] The village of Jamuawan, 13 km southeast of Ekangarsarai, has a mound with an area 57 decimals, with Pala period sculptures as well as a slab inscription from the 12th-13th centuries CE.
[3] In the southeast of the village of Aungari, 5 km south of Ekangardih, is a temple complex called Aungārīdhām, which possesses a number of old sculptures.