The battle of Buxar had taken place.

The battle of Buxar had taken place.

 A large area of ​​North India was now under the control of the British.  The foundations of the empire were established on the plains of Ganga, now they had to rule here for a long time.

  One has to understand the culture, beliefs and practices of those who are to be ruled.  The Sanghis did not understand this, the British did because they had the experience of ruling.

 He also had a studious and inquisitive intelligentsia, the British allowed him to do research, and the discovery of Indian ancient history began.

  Many Englishmen who came into the service of the Company had great interest in linguistics, coins and ancient texts.

 William Jones was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta.  Learned Sanskrit myself.

 Wherever he was posted, he would collect such materials and share them with other scholars.  They would have seen them in the light of other records of world history.

This group emerged as the Asiatic Society.  And the outline of Indian ancient (leftist) history began to take shape.

  There is mention of a person named Megasthenes in Greek and Latin history, quotes from his book Indica are found.

 In this, a king named Cendracottus is said to be ruling in India.  Whose capital was Palibotara.

 Palibotara, according to Megasthenes, is at the confluence of two rivers – the Ganges and the Iranobos.

 Now the search for Palibotara began.

  The first candidate was Allahabad.  Confluence of Ganga and Jamuna.  But here its old name is found in Prayag text.  No acoustic similarity to Palibotra

 The second candidate was Kannauj.  It was on the banks of Ganga, there are old royal remains there, but there is no confluence of two rivers.  Rejected..

 Then a tremendous discovery was made.

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Major James Rennell was the Surveyor General of Bengal.  Map making was his job, and he made the first complete - near perfect map of India.

 Rennell found a description by the Greek historian Pliny stating that the city of Palibotra was some 425 Roman miles downstream from the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna.

 This was a big clue.  The Roman mile is approximately one and a half kilometres.  You had to search 650-700 km ahead of the confluence at Allahabad.

And he was settled here, the Patna of his paltu.

 Rennell found out that the people here believe that there was once a city named Patelputta at this place.  This name was similar to Palibotara.  Now one thing is solved.

 But confluence of rivers??  There is Ganga in Patna, but there is no other river.  So a geological survey of Patna city was done.

  No fountains were found there.  Found a dry riverbed, which belonged to the Son River.  This river is about 20-22 miles away.  But Son's name has no acoustic similarity with Iranabose.

 So there was still doubt.  To remove this doubt, James Prinsep enters.  While translating an ancient Indian text named Mudrarakshasa, Prinsep found that...

 Chandragupta, whose capital was Pataliputra, had the name of another river besides Ganga – Hiranyabahu.

That means river with arms of gold.

 Son River.

  The name of modern Patna city was given by Sher Shah Suri.  And the initial sites were excavated around 1895.

 Jamshedji Tata believed that Maurya was originally a Parsi.

 And if the connection of India's oldest kingdom with the Parsis was proved, it would have been a matter of great pride.

  An American scholar named DB Spooner was employed in this excavation.  This guy, who studied at Stanford, lived in Japan, learned Sanskrit, was then working in the British Government's ASI.

 He began digging, and on 7 February 1913..

 Exactly 100 years ago, he dug out Ashokan pillars in Kumrahar,

 And many other artefacts proved that this is Pataliputra, which was once the capital of India.

  The story of Magadha begins from the Mahajanapada period.  The capital was Rajagriha, which was lifted by the Haryanka dynasty and brought to Pataliputra by Udayin.

 For the first time in Indian history, 1000 years after the Indus Valley Civilization, there is no sign of urbanization again.

 It got the status of empire during the period of Nand dynasty.  And by uprooting it, the Maurya dynasty creates the largest empire in Indian history.

  After this, during the Sunga and then the Gupta period, this city sees the zenith of its glory.  This is 1600 years old.

 After this Pataliputra entered its period of defeat.  Its history kept getting buried under tons of soil.

 

The pride of Biharis and Magadhians too...now they are identified with Paltimar Nawab.

Who, in the last days of his reign, is trying to save the Mansabdari by placing the turban of Pataliputra at the feet of Delhi.