Pundravardhana or Pundra kingdom () was an ancient kingdom of Iron Age India located in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with a territory that included parts of present-day Rajshahi and parts of Rangpur Division of Bangladesh, as well as the West Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. The capital of the kingdom, then known as Pundranagara (Pundra city), was located at Mahasthangarh in Bogra District of northern Bangladesh. According to old puranic literature, king Pundra gained a mixed non-Vedic and Indo-Aryan heritage. They were a Mlechas (non-Aryan) community.
Pundravardhana or Pundra kingdom () was an ancient kingdom of Iron Age India located in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with a territory that included parts of present-day Rajshahi and parts of Rangpur Division of Bangladesh, as well as the West Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. The capital of the kingdom, then known as Pundranagara (Pundra city), was located at Mahasthangarh in Bogra District of northern Bangladesh. According to old puranic literature, king Pundra gained a mixed non-Vedic and Indo-Aryan heritage. They were a Mlechas (non-Aryan) community.
==Geography== Mahasthangarh, the ancient capital of Pundravardhana is located 11 km (7 mi) north of Bogra on the Bogra-Rangpur highway, with a feeder road (running along the eastern side of the ramparts of the citadel for 1.5 km) leading to Jahajghata and site museum.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).