India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptions

Mahasthan.—A burnt clay figure of a female deity belonging to the Śuṅga period and found at Mahasthangarh helps us to confirm the fact that Mahasthand represents one of the earliest city-sites of Bengal.

Source: Shodhganga: New look on the kushan bengali

Mahasthan (Mahasthangarh) in Bogra district is an excavated site revealing Kushan presence.—Mahasthan or Mahasthangarh represents the earliest and the largest archaeological site in Bangladesh, consists of the ruins of the ancient city of Pundranagara (Ahmed and Alam,1979). The site is 13 km north of Bogra town on the Dhaka-Dinajpur highway. The ruins form an oblong plateau measuring 1500m N-S and 1400m E-W and are enclosed on their four sides by rampart walls that rise to an average height of 6m from river level. The river Karatoya (Karatoya) flows on the eastern side

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Starts with: Mahasthana, Mahasthanaprapta, Mahasthangarh.

Full-text: Mahasthangarh, Pundravardhana.

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Jain Remains of Ancient Bengal (by Shubha Majumder)

Geographical as well as Geo-political unit of Zone IV < [Chapter 2 - Geographical Setting of the Study Area]

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