Mayuradhvaja of Tamluk Rajbari and his son Tamradhvaja are famous Mahabharata. In the swayambar meeting of Drupada's daughter Draupadi, the names Tamralipta and Kalinga were obtained along with the names of many Rathi Maharathi kings. The name of Tamralipta Raja is found in the context of Bengal conquest. In Jaimini Mahabharata Ashvamedhik Parva Chapters 41-46 Tamraliptaraja Mayurdhvaja's name is found. His descendants called themselves #Mahishyas.
Dhananjay Das Majumdar, in his contribution of Bengalis in India and Outside India book, mentions that the descendants of the said Tamraliptaraja are of Bali i.e. Shuhma clan. However, it is true that the descendants of Tamluk Rajbari call themselves Mahishya, but there is a difference of opinion as to whether they are the descendants of Bali.
Along with this, let us just mention some other parts - the descendants of Bali's son Anga established the capital of Anga kingdom at Champa in Bhagalpur district of Bihar.
Banga, the son of Bali, had three more sons. One of those three sons established the capital at Kamalanka. Later, for whatever reason, Chandrasena, son of Samudrasena, became the king here. The ruins of this capital are famous as #Maynamati. King Chandrasena of this kingdom is seen in many episodes of Mahabharata.
Ashuman, Chekitan, Mahavala Hiruman, Samudrasena's son Pratapsali Chandrasena were present in Draupadi's swayambar meeting . as per Chapter 179, Adiparva, Mahabharata by Haridas Siddhanta Bagish.
Chandradwip of Samatat bears his sacred memory. Kedarnath Mishra writes – “The then sea washed the southern shores of Trihoot or Tirbhukti and Samatat extended from here eastwards to Chachar and Chandradwip, where reigned in those days King Chandra Sena who fought with Bhima the second Pandava, in the Ashwameda era of Mahabharata.”
India's famous Tantrasadhika Mainamati was Chandrasena's descendant Manik Chand i.e. the queen of Manik Chandra and the mother of India's famous Govinda Chandra or Gopi Chand. Note that the descendants of Chandrasena are now well known as the Mahishya caste.
Another son of Banga established the capital at Bhushana (Bangabhushana) in Sambanga. The name of his descendant, King Samudrasena of this kingdom also appears in many episodes of Mahabharata. "Pundraraja Vasudeva" or "Poundravasudeva" along with his grandsons were killed while fighting with Lord Krishna. Then Samudrasen's descendant kings continued to rule as heirs to his Pundra kingdom.
Srigupta was born in this family of Samudrasena. According to historian Dhananjaya Das Majumdar Mahashay, Srigupta was Pundraraja. Srigupta's son Chandragupta I conquered Magadha and started the Gupta dynasty and dynasty. #Rajbhat, the son of this dynasty, was the founder of the Samatata kingdom.
India's famous scholar and university principal #Ateesh_Dipankar_Sreegyan was born in the clan of the Rajbhat. #Gopal, grandson of Pandit #Dwaita_Vishnu and son of King Bapyat, was born in the Rajbhat dynasty and after a long period of Matsyanyay, he was the founder of the Pala dynasty. He is the Adhiswara of Banga and Pundravardhana.
The third son of Banga was the king of #Devalay in Samatat. Which was later named as Chandraketugarh. I hope everyone is aware of the history of how Jahangir's commander killed Maharaja Chandraketu and his family in Kapata Yuddha!
Among the descendants of Bali's son Kalinga, Srutayu's name appears in the Mahabharata. He was killed in the battle of Kurukshetra. At the end of the Kesari dynasty of Kalinga in Bhubaneswar, #Chodaganga or Anantavarma of the Gajapati Ganga Vamsa of #Prasuhma or the descendant of Baliputra Suhma of Rajnagar in Birbhum became the king of the entire Kalinga kingdom.
Pundravardhan was the name of Baliputra Pundra.
Pundravardhan was comprised of the present Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Poschim Dinajpur district of West Bengal, Bangladesh. The capital was called Pundranagar. It was located at Mahasthangarh in present-day Bogra district of Bangladesh. Pundranagar itself was known as Mahasthangarh.
The capital of Baliputra Suhma was at Sen Pahari in Kanksa Thana of present Burdwan District. The kings of this kingdom are famous all over India as kings of #Nanda and #Shunga dynasty. The king of this dynasty #Vishwasphani is the first emperor of the Bali dynasty in Magadha. The prince of this dynasty was the first commander of Lausen (815 – 854).
He is not Lausen of Mangalkavya, that is, he is not Lausen (1041-1071), the son of feudal king Karnasena of Maynagarh in Medinipur.
Dhananjay Mahashay writes, India's civilization had a great development during the Mahabharata period before the Kurukshetra war. In the Mahabharata many prapathas, parirathyas and trades are introduced. Bengal's Tamralipta became a prominent land and sea trade center from that era. For this reason, Jaimini Mahabharata called Tamralipta as Ratnagarh or Ratnapur.
Aswamedhik Parva of Kashidasi Mahabharata records Yudhishthira's horse Aswamedha entering the city of Tamralipta from Manipur in Northeast India. Here the Tamralipta state is called Ratnavatipur.
The word "Sikhi" means "peacock"or "Mayur"; Therefore, the name of the founder king of Tamralipta kingdom is mentioned as #Mayurdhvaja in the genealogy of Rajbari and that name is also seen in various books.
He,that is, Mayuradhvaja was also preparing for Ashwamedha Yajna. The time was during the preparation of the Ashwamedha yajna of the Pandavas. For that reason, he also completed the work of performing the Ashwamedha Yajna. The responsibility of guarding that horse was on Tamradhwaja, son of Mayurdhwaja.
In the game of the gods, both Ashwamedha's horses fell into the hands of Tamradhvaja. At that time Tamralipta was known as Ratnavatipur in India. Tamradhvaja had a fierce struggle with the Pandava side to stop the Aswamedha horse of Hastinapur.
In that struggle, Tamradhvaja single-handedly defeated Karnaputra Vrishketu, King Yuvanasa and his son Subeg, Daityaraja Anushal, King Hansadhwaja of Bhadravatipur, King Arjunaputra of Manipur, Vavrubahana, Krishna-Nandana Pradyumna, Krishna's charioteer Satyaki, Bhima, Arjuna, one by one.
Finally, the Hastinapur horses were freed by the union of Tamradhwaja's father Param Vaishnava Mayuradhvaja with Lord Krishna and Mayuradhavaja joined the Pandava army with honor. Then both the horses were brought to Hastinapur. King Mayurdhvaja himself came to Hastinapur along with the Tamralipta horse and two Ashwamedha yagnas were held in Hastinapur on the same day.
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