Terracotta Sealings
About a dozen of circular terracotta sealings, measuring about 5 cm in diameter, with the usual Buddhist creed had been recovered from the site. These were intact and Buddhist creed in the periphery.
Votive Clay Stupas
Among the four terracotta votive clay stupas recovered from...
ANANDA VIHARA:PART 3
Stone Image
A large stone image of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was recovered from the western projection of the temple ( Square C-IV/25, layer 3 ). It was broken into few pieces. This was made of local soft laminated black stone geologically known as Dupitila Formation ( Badr, 1976: 12). Similar sculptures...
ANANDA VIHARA:PART 2
The builders kept the length of second phase cell as it was in the first phase .i.e.,3.28 m, but slightly changed the breadth from 2.74 to 2.59 m. Here it is noticeable that the breadth of this phase cell could be determined in very small portions of the northern wing and south-east corner of the...
ANANDA VIHARA:PART 1
A large number of Buddhist monasteries, temples, stupas and most probably other establishments too were erected on the crests, slopes and foots of the hills between 6th and 13th century of the Christian era. Some of these, for instance, are Salban Vihara, Kutila Mura, Charpatra Mura, Mainamati’s Palace...
MUGHAL DHAKA AND THE LALBAGH FORT:PART - IV
Of the much publicized secret passages of the Lalbagh Fort no definite evidence is available. Exploration by the Department of Archaeology inside the huge bastion adjacent to the south-eastern Gate revealed, apart from different building periods, a descending passage with a stairway subsequently sealed...
MUGHAL DHAKA AND THE LALBAGH FORT:PART - III
Towards the eastern sector of the fort, halfway between the two gateways, is a 235 feet square ancient tank originally provided with masonry retaining walls on all four sides and stairways at the corners. On its western bank, distant about 130 feet, stands a graceful double-storeyed building with...
MUGHAL DHAKA AND THE LALBAGH FORT:PART - II
During the hundred years of Mughal rule in the province, several illustrious Governors like Mir Jumla, Shaista Khan and Ibrahim Khan successively occupied the ‘suvadarship’ of Bengal who embellishe and expanded the city with numerous palaces, mosques, ‘katras’fortresses, roads and highways. Many of...
MUGHAL DHAKA AND THE LALBAGH FORT:PART - I
Occupying nearly the centre of an immense flat land, drained by some of the mightiest rivers of the world, chiefty the Ganges and the Brahmaputra with their numerous tributaries, nature has bestowed on the city her bounties in a generous mood, scarcely met with elsewhere. The fertile surrounding...
BAGERHAT MONUMENTS PART-2
Mosque and Mausoleum of Zinda Pir
About 100 m southeast of the nine domed mosque there stands a small single domed mosque in a very ruinous state surrounded by many masonry graves. Tradition ascribes that the mosque was built by one nebulous Zinda Pir. The mosq is a 4.7m squre building with three...
BAGERHAT MONUMENTS PART-1
Tomb of Khan Jahan
The second important monument of Khalifatabad is the single domed mausoleum of Khan Jahan located on the northern embankment of a large tank locally known as Thakur dighi. It is about 2km east-southeast of Shait Gumbad Mosque.
The tomb is a square building measuring 13.70m each...
INTRODUCTION TO BAGERHAT
The ruins in and around the present Bagerhat town represent the medieval township of Khalifatabad built by a saint general Khan-al-Azam Khan Jahan or Ulugh Khan Jahan in the inhospitable habitat close to the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest of the world. Today it is the headquarters of the...
PAHARPUR - CONCLUSION
Stone Sculptures
A large number of stone sculptures have been discovered from the site. Of them loose sculptures are very few whereas sixty-three have been found in situ in the basement of the temple. The Only one of the latter is a Buddhist image; a Bodhisattva and the rest represent Brahmanical...
PAHARPUR-ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS OF THE POST-LIBERATION EXCAVATIONS
Gandheswari Temple
To the southwest ghat at a distance of 12.20m there lies an isolated structure locally known as the Temple as the Temple of Gandhesvari. the russet, and bricks with floral pattern used in the front wall and also the mortar used between the joints of bricks clearly indicates that...
