Mahasthangarh,the antiquated capital of Pundravardha

Mahasthangarh is one of the soonest urban archeological destinations so far found in Bangladesh. The town Mahasthan in Shibganj thana of Bogra District contains the remaining parts of an antiquated city which was called Pundranagara or Paundravardhanapura in the domain of Pundravardhana. A limestone piece bearing six lines inPrakrit in Brahmi content, found in 1931, dates Mahasthangarh to at any rate the third century BC. The strengthened zone was being used till the eighteenth century AD.

The antiquated and medieval vestiges, the mazhar (sacred tomb) of Shah Sultan Balkhi Mahisawar worked at the site of a Hindu sanctuary is situated at Mahasthangarh in the same place. He was a dervish (sacred individual committed to Islam) of illustrious ancestry who went to the Mahasthangarh zone, with the target of spreading Islam among non-Muslims. He changed over the general population of the zone to Islam and settled there.

Mahasthan implies a place that has brilliant holiness and garh implies stronghold. Mahasthan was first said in a Sanskrit content of the thirteenth century entitled Vallalcharita. It is additionally specified in an unknown content Karatoya mahatmya, incidentally set in 12th– thirteenth century. A similar content likewise specifies two more names to mean a similar place – Pundrakshetra, place that is known for the Pundras, and Pundranagara, city of the Pundras. In 1685, a regulatory pronouncement said the place as Mastangarh, a blend of Sanskrit and Persian importance sustained place of a favorable personage. Consequent revelations have affirmed that the before name was Pundranagara or Paundravardhanapura, and that the present name of Mahasthangarh is of later cause.

Mahasthangarh, the antiquated capital of Pundravardhana is found 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Bogra on the Bogra-Rangpur parkway, with a feeder street (running along the eastern side of the bulwarks of the fortress for 1.5 km) prompting Jahajghata and site gallery. Transports are accessible for Bogra from Dhaka and take 4½ hours for the voyage by means of Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge over the Jamuna River. Transports are accessible from Bogra to Mahasthangarh. Rickshaws are accessible for nearby development. Enlisted transport is accessible at Dhaka/Bogra. Convenience is accessible at Bogra. When going in an employed auto, one can come back to Dhaka that day, unless some person has an arrangement to visit Somapura Mahavihara at Paharpur in the locale of Naogaon and different places, or take part in a definite report.

It is trusted that the area for the city in the territory was settled on the grounds that it is one of the most noteworthy territories in Bangladesh. The land in the area is very nearly 36 meters (118 ft) above ocean level, though Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is around 6 meters (20 ft) above ocean level. Another explanation behind picking this place was the position and size of the Karatoya, which as of late as in the thirteenth century was three times more extensive than Ganges.

Mahasthangarh remains on the red soil of the Barind Tract which is somewhat lifted inside the to a great extent alluvium region. The height of 15 to 25 meters over the encompassing territories makes it a generally surge free physiographic unit.