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Sultanganj is a town in Bhagalpur district, and has a railway station of the same name on the loop-line of the Eastern Railway running from Kolkata to Kiul. An excellent all-weather road connecting Bhagalpur with Munger and Patna also serves it. It has a cosmopolitan population. It is a flourishing business place and there are a number of schools and colleges. Sultanganj also came under the influence of the Jains. The 23rd and 24th Tirthankars had visited Champa nagar or Bhagalpur. Champa nagar had been visited by Lord Mahavir several times and it is recorded that he had spent three rainy seasons there.
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