Basarah-Bakhira, Lauriya-Nandangarh and Rampurva, sites of Mauryan pillars, are in:

1. Sankisa and Sarnath are in Uttar Pradesh. 2. These three sites are in Bihar. 3. The Sarnath capital is the finest. _Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 3, Arts of the Mauryan Period._