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History and tradition of Lalpur

History of ancient Lalpur


 Ancient times:

             “Now where the city of Nato was 300 years ago there was a great bill. Raghunandan, the progenitor of the Natore dynasty, established his extensive capital here in the late seventeenth century. It is not wrong to call his zamindari a state. Because at that time half of Bangladesh was under the kings of Nato.


According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India, almost the entire part of Natore Sub-division, except Lalpur thana on the banks of the Padma, was a floodplain and the largest of these was the Chalanbil. With the exception of the Lalpur thana situated on the Padma most of the subdivision is swampy depression water logged and aboundings in marshes the larger of which is the Chalan Beel.


 The rich history of Natore, the capital of the kings and kings, is hundreds of years old, but Lalpur became habitable more than one and a half thousand years ago, and many scholars, pilgrims, preachers and kings visited this Lalpur. Rumors and discussions about the 1500-year-old ancient coin idol in Lalpur and Prasthar Khanda need to be preserved.


             1600 years ago, the empire of the Gupta kings extended to the far reaches of Bangladesh. Aryan civilization spread in Lalpur and Baraigram areas since then. A copper scepter given by Kumar Gupta, the son of King Vikramaditya, the judge of the famous Navratna Sabha and Trisith Singhasan, was discovered here a few days ago.


 It mentions the donation of some land to a divine Brahmin named Barah Swami of Dhanaidah village of Baraigram police station in 432 AD. This means that the southern part of Chalan Bill in Lalpur and Baraigram police station was inhabited since 1600 years ago. (Challan Bill's End Story MA Hamid Page 160-161)


 According to the historian Rameshchandra Majumdar, "The identity of the Brakshanas who received land grants in different copper regimes shows that they have a lot of knowledge in the various branches of the Vedas and Vedic works." (Bang. E. Ancient Age p. 144) Huey Sangay's recently written Barahamihir's large Samhita text is mentioned separately in the departmental histories of Bangladesh at that time. It can be assumed that Barah Mihir and Barah Swami of Dhanaidah were the same person.


    Bhatrabhavadeva, the minister of Haricharma Deva, was well versed in philosophy, mimansha, artha shastra, dharmashastra, ayuverd, antarveda, siddha tantra and mathematics and he was given the title of Varaha II by writing treatises on chora sastra. (Rameshchandra page 144). From this, the status and scholarship of Barah Swami can be understood from the copperplate found in Dhanaidah.


 A Muslim farmer discovered a Gupta period copper vessel in Dhanaidah village under the present Baraigram police station in the northern part of Lalpur. Zaminda Moulbi Irshad Ali Khan Chowdhury Sahib of Natore took the said copperplate and gave it to Akshay Kumar Maitreya, the well-known historian of Rajshahi. In the art exhibition held in Calcutta in 1906-7 AD, the Bengali Sahitya Parishad displayed some of the spectacular works of the antiquity of Bangladesh. On this occasion Maitriya Mahashay sent Navabiskrit Tamra Sashan to Khani Parishad. At the request of Bamkesh Mustafi Mahashay, one of the assistant editors of the Parishad, the famous historian Rakhal Das Bandopadhyay tried to recover the text of Tamra Shiran Khani. He states in his History of Bengal (2nd edition page 59) that much of this Tamra rule is illegible. When it was sent to the Parishad, the first part of it contained the name of Maharajadhiraj Kumar Gupta. But this part is gradually decaying. The council has to take special measures to protect it.


     Sometime later Maitreya Mahasaya gave the Copper Plateau to the Ania Rajshahi Varendra Research Society. The first reading of this copperplate was published in 1909 AD in Asiatic Society Journal, No. 5, page 460, and in Bangiya Parishad magazine (page 112 of 16). It is known from the inscriptions that the names of Maharajadhiraja Ith Kumar and Gupta (432 AD) were Sivasharma and Nag Sharma, small village dwellers of Brakshan. And the subject of Mahakhushapi? The name of the named province is mentioned.

A divine Brakshan named Varaha Swami had obtained some land by this copperplate and it was engraved by Stambhesvara Dasa. The latter named in 1323 Bangabd. Radha Govinda

Rescued. According to them the land was donated. It will be a matter of khatapa.

During the reign of Christian VIII Shvatke Adisura, the Gaur kingdom was divided into three bhagas. Radha Bhad and Varendra.


Notor or Chalan Beel area was included in the Bhad area at this time. For this reason, the people of Bill area of Lalpur are still called Bharia and the people of Char area are called Charia.


                                   

Pal and Sen period,

During the Pala and Sena periods, Bangladesh was divided into five parts namely Radha, Mithila, Upabanga, Banga and Varendra. Lalpur, the area of Chalan Bill, was part of Varendra Division at this time. Lalpur had good business communication from Nadia Krishnanagar, the area along the banks of the Padma, and an administrative center or Thana of Barendra area was established at Lalpur. (Lalpur Statistics)


           At Lalpur Mauza and at the village of Naoda Para near Salampur, there was a city fort and victory pillar (Jayskambadhabar) of the Sena period belonging to Balia Michir.