The outcome of the author's pragmatic thought and reverence on Bodh-Gaya, this is an attempt to narrate the history of the growth and development of the Bodh-Gaya region prior to lord Buddha's advent there on the holy bank of niranjana and its subsequent growth and development as an important centre of Buddhism and a place of pilgrimage to Buddhists the world over. In six chapters, the Arvind Mahajan has given a vivid description of its growth and development in episodes connected with pre and post enlightenment, Asoka's pilgrimage and the unbroken reverence for the place that was transformed into a center of art and architecture and to know as Mahabodhi or Sambodhi in Buddhist literature.