Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.137

c8.137

*Bāṅgaṛh*.—It is in the Dinajpur district of Bengal, where the grant of Mahipāla I was discovered (*E.I.*, XIV, 324ff.). The ruins of Bāṅgaṛh or Bānnagara are found on the eastern bank of the river Punarbhavā, one and a half mile to the north of Gaṅgārāmpur which is 18 miles south of Dinajpur. For further details vide *Introducing India*, Pt. I, 79-80; *Proceedings of the Indian History Congress*, III, 1939-40; K. G. Goswami, *Excavations at Bāṅgaṛh* (Calcutta, 1948). See *Koṭivarṣaviṣaya*.