Archeological Evidences of Sanatan Dharma from Bengal

Recently, some YouTube channels and X handles have been claiming that Hinduism is hardly 1,000 years old in Bengal, and there is no older archaeological evidence of Sanatan Dharma in Bengal.

Let's debunk their propaganda on the basis of archaeological evidence

Let's look at the archaeological evidence

1.1700 year old Bigrah of Maa Durga from Bankura

2. 1700 year old Bigrah of Bhagwan Vishnu from Malda 

3. A 1400 year old Bigrah of Bhagwan Vishnu with Garuda 

4. Pahārpur a 1400 year old Archeological site 

According Archeologists-

The Excavations at Pahārpur....Almost without exception, they belong to the Brahmanical pantheon

Source:Early Sculpture of Bengal, Calcutta, 1962 from Central Archeological Library 

5. A 1600-year-old inscription mentions Bengali Brahmins asking for land to perform the Agnihotra Yagya

                       ■Bangalir Itihas: Adiparba

                             Book by Niharranjan Ray

Let's explore even older archaeological evidence of Sanatan Dharma from Bengal

6. A 2000-1900 year old  Bigraha of lord Kartikeya from Mahasthangad 

■Bangalir Itihas: Adiparba

Book by Niharranjan Ray

The 1800-year-old inscription from Bankura describes the King of Bengal, Chandra-Varma, as a devotee of Lord Vishnu

                      ■ Bangalar Itihas - Vol.1 - 2nd ed

                                           by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay           

According to the archaeological study by IIT Kharagpur 

7. 

Ancient Chandraketugarh was mainly dominated by Brahmanical faith. Inscriptions on clay seals refer to Dwijas (men of Brahmanical caste).

These evidences are  2300 year old!

8. According to an archaeological study by IIT Kharagpur, findings from Chandraketugarh, dating to the pre-Mauryan period, are associated with Vedic Sanatan Dharma

[600 BCE to 300 BCE]

9. "Wari-Bateshwar" a 2500 years old Archeological site and according to archeologists "

the religious beliefs of the Wari-Bateshwar people from those symbols depicted on this quern, then it indicates the prevalence of Hinduism

"

And "

we do not find out the presence of Buddhism in Wari-Bateshwar"

10. A 1500-1400 year old scene of Ramayana from Bengal .

11.  A 1500 year old Manuscript of Ramayana from Bengal. 

12.Gangaridai: A royal seal from   Gangaridai mentions a Vedic Vishwamedha Yajna, dating to 300-200 BC. Archaeologists have

also found a Yajna Kunda there.

[The 33rd chapter of Shuklayajurveda describes the Sarvamedha Yajna, which is also called the Vishwamedha Yajna by many.

Vishwamedha Yajna has been mentioned many times in Shaivism.  Vishwamedha Yajna in Shaivism is a spiritual Yajna. The sacrifice of this universe in the fire of the soul is called Vishwamedha Yajna.]

13.According to the Damodarpur inscription (1600 years old), the people of North Bengal living in impassable mountains used to worship Bhagwan Shiva.

■ 2,000-year-old Ashvamedha Yajna from Bengal 

           TREASURES OF THE GUPTA EMPIRE

Even the oldest writer of the Charyapada, Luypada, mentioned the Vedas and Agama in his verses[900-1000 AD]

Not only these we get name of Bengal in Ramayana also ,which used to be Vedic.

The Manusmriti describes Bengal as part of Aryavarta (2.22). The Mahabharata

describes Tamralipta as the land of powerful elephant warriors. In the Sabha

Parva, the people of Vanga are described as Kshatriya Srestha. Arjuna came to

perform a pilgrimage in Bengal. 

And according to astronomy Ramayana is 7000 year old .

According to all of these archaeological & astronomical evidences we can conclude that Sanatan Dharma is more than 8000+ years old in Bengal.