[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c42.145 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.145 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.145 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c42.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.145) \*\*Pandu Rajar Dhibi\*\* (23°35′; 87°39′), Dt Burdwan, situated in village Panduk in the flood-plains of the Ajay amidst the typical rural surroundings of Rādha on a red lateritic \[9.6\] undulating plain, the mounds locally known as Rajar Dhibi or Raja Pota Danga and associated with legendary king Pāṇḍu. In 1914 a gold coin of Narasiṁhagupta Bālāditya was picked up at the site; a few medieval sculptures found here are locally worshipped. In 1961 a few microliths \[4.14.4\], sherds of the black-and-red ware \[11.6.5\] and shiny black-painted red ware sherds were collected from the site by the writer and S.C. Mukherjee, both of the Directorate of Arch., W. Bengal (\*AIR 1960-1\*, p. 67). Large-scale excavation was undertaken here by the Directorate under P.C. Das Gupta during 1962-5 (\*IAR 1962-3\*, p. 43; \*1963-4\*, p. 61; \*1964-5\*, p. 48), revealing a cultural assemblage of four distinct Pds, Pds I and II Chalcolithic \[4.14.4\], Pd III of the Iron Age \[4.16\] with an overlap with the preceding Pd, and Pd IV early historical \[4.18.5\] and medieval. - [Previous: v2.c42.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.144) - [Next: v2.c42.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.146) - [Up: v2.c42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c42.145) · Pramāṇa