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A masterpiece antique to describe about ancient Bengali fashion & lifestyle during Gangaridai civilization.  Gangaridai Plaque with a Royal Family, Chandraketugarh, West Bengal, 1st century BCE.  Source: The MetArt... https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38575 This family scene and the touching intimacy that permeates it are unusual in Indian terracotta. With his left hand, the man, seated on a chair, holds the back of his wife's head: she stands before him and gently caresses his knees. The Gangaridae Men wore leftward leaning peaked turbans.  A small figure, thought the couple's son, is shown seated, besides a dog he holds by its leash, in the foreground. Two ducks appear at the lower left while at the far right, fragments of a monkey, climbing the leg of the chair, can be seen. However the interesting part is the "Wrong" depiction of the woman's palm on the man's knee... Is it intentional??? or a "mistake"???  Also see t...

"India... is inhabited by very many nations among which the greatest of all is that of the Gangaridai (Γανγαρίδαι), against whom Alexander did not undertake an expedition, being deterred by the multitude of their elephants. This region is separated from Further India by the greatest river in those parts, for it has a breadth of 30 stadia, but it adjoins the rest of India which Alexander had conquered." Gangaridai in  Ptolemy 's Map The river mentioned in this passage as having "a breadth of 30 stadia" and forming the boundary between Further India and the Gangaridai is doubtless the Ganges. In the light of this evidence it is more reasonable to identify the stream which, according to a passage quoted earlier, forms the boundary towards the east of the tribe of the Gandaridae, with the easternmost branch of the Ganges rather than with the westernmost mouth of the river. Incidentally the passages quoted from Diodorus seem to imply that the famous Sicil...

Worship of Debi Gõjõ-Lōkkhī in Gangaridae Civilization  🪙  Śubha Dhanatraẏōdaśī   🪙 On this day, the Vaishya merchant community of Bengal - the Baṇikas take a vow to worship their goddess GajaLakṣmī. During the heyday of the ancient Gangaridai civilization, the Gangazha merchants used to trade in Sinhala, Java, Sumatra, Rome, Greece, Crete with huge cargo ships and returned home with huge wealth. At that time, Pippali spice of Bengal was in great demand in the world. Pliny lamented that all Rome's gold would have been spent buying Pippali from the Gangaridai. Many famous merchants like Banik Chandrapati, Banik Pundarik, Banik Jambhalamitra, Banik Dhanpati Shresthi have traded in the foreign and the stories of their huge ships, Saptadingha, Madhukar Dinga have become legends. Picture : Gangaridai era Gaja-Lakshmi/Gõjõ-Lōkkhī murti from Chandraketugarh, West Bengal. Gold came from foreign trade, through the export of various cash crops of...