Vanga and other kingdoms in Late Vedic Period c. 1100 BCE
Vanga and erstwhile neighbors in ancient India
Capital
Probably Kotalipara (in present-day Bangladesh)
Common languages
Vedic Sanskrit
Religion
Historical Vedic Religion
Government
Monarchy
Raja (King or chief)
• c. 10th century BCE
Samudrasena
• c. 9th century BCE
Chadrasena
Historical era
Iron Age
• Established
c. 1100 BCE
• Disestablished
c. 340 BCE
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Vedic Period
Nanda Empire
Samatata
Today part of
Bangladesh India
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History of Bengal
Ancient Kingdoms
Pundravardhana
Vanga
Gangaridai
Samatata
Anga
Suhma
Harikela
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Vaṅga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division within the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent.[1] The kingdom is one of the namesakes of the Bengal region.[2] It was located in southern Bengal, with the core region including the southern part of present-day West Bengal (India) and southwestern Bangladesh. Vanga features prominently in the epics and tales of ancient India as well as in the history of Sri Lanka.
Vanga was probably the center of the Gangaridai Empire mentioned by numerous Greco-Roman writers. The exact capital of ancient Vanga kingdom could not be identified. After the rule of the Gupta Empire, ancient Bengal was divided into two independent kingdoms — Gauda and Vanga. Archaeologists think that Kotalipara in present-day Bangladesh was the capital of the independent Vanga kingdom.
Indian and Greco-Roman writers referred to the region's war elephants. In Indian history, Vanga is notable for its strong navy. There are numerous references to Vanga in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, which is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India. The other epic, the Ramayana, mentions the kingdom as an ally of Ayodhya.
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independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In ancient times, Bengal consisted of the kingdoms of Pundra, Suhma, Vanga, Samatata and...
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Vangapati (Lord of Vanga) and Gaudesvara (Lord of Gauda). Sena kings also called themselves Gaudesvara. From then Gauda and Vanga seem to be interchangeable...
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southern Bengal (Vanga), eastern Bengal, and western Bengal (the kingdom of Chandravarman). Historian Ashvini Agarwal states that his kingdom included central...
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