Kurkihar hoard

[3] The monastery where the bronzes were found was named Apanakain in an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita manuscript now in LACM.

In 1930 a hoard of 226 bronzes and five other objects was found at Kurkihar, which were unearthed from the main mound.

A number of stone images have also been found from the Pala period, some of which are still in active worship at the local Devi temple.

In 2005, for an exhibition in Australia, two of the three statues representing India were from Kurkihar, they were valued at US $30 million.

The inscriptions found refer to donors not only from distant place in India like Sakala in Punjab, and Kerala, Conjeevaram or Kanchi in the south, but also from Bali Islands, Malaya as well as other countries.

The Hindu temple situated in the north-eastern portion of the village was visited by Cunningham in 1861 where a number of images, both Buddhist and Hindu images, dated to the 10th–11th Century AD, have been preserved here.

[15] The images were later recovered from a gang including a Vinod Yadav in Nalanda district, and Shahid Warsi of Kolkata.

[16] In 2022, an image of Bodhisatva Padmapani, stolen from the Kundalpur Devisthan Temple at Kurkiar was surrendered by the owner and is in the process of being returned to India.

[17] In the modern Devistahan Kundalpur Hindu temple at[18] there are a number of Buddhist images still in active worship.