Mainimati Ruins

What travelers say:

The small town of Kumira, Bangladesh, Comilla is a noisy industrial town, but historically it was the capital of a small country called Samatata on the subcontinent. "The sea is near the sea, the land is so humid... the crops are nourished, the flowers are lush. The atmosphere is harmonious and the customs are smooth." This is the impression left by Xuan Xuan when he visited Sanmosuo in the seventh century AD, when Buddhism was prevalent here. After Sanmaru became independent from the Peacock Dynasty, he was in a state of subordination during the Sudoku Dynasty, and then experienced the three Buddhist dynasty as independent kingdoms - Khadga, Deva and Chandra. Xuanxuan should have visited during the Khadga Dynasty, according to his description, Sanmaru has more than 30 temples and more than 2,000 monks. Sanmaru's Buddhism flourished during the reign of the Deva dynasty. The Deva royal family is very devout Buddhists. They built a large number of temples in the capital Devaparvata, now the Mainamati area on the outskirts of Comilla, including the Chandra dynasty that replaced them this time to inherit the Buddhist tradition. And the maritime trade between the Chandra dynasty and many Southeast Asian countries has played an important role in the introduction of Buddhism into Southeast Asia. The Sanmamotos then experienced two Hindu dynasties, Varman and Sena, until the 13th century, when the Delhi Sultanate of Muslims invaded Bangladesh, and the Sanmamotos' subcontinental spread disappeared into history, along with the disappearance of Buddhism. The current Mainimati Ruins is the general name of the Buddhist sites in this area. The site was accidentally discovered by the local army when it was cleaned up with a shovel. The entire site group has Salban Vihara, Kotila Mura, Charpatra Mura and Ananda Vihara, the latter three of which are in the military subdivision, and foreigners cannot visit it. Only the most complete Salban Vihara can be visited, and the cultural relics unearthed at these sites are now concentrated in Mainimati Museum on display. It rained heavily during the visit of the Salban Vihara site, and followed the footsteps of Xuanxuan romantically in the rain. Going to the height, looking at the base site of the 170 square meters of Salban Vihara, the outer circle of the Buddhist temple is composed of 115 monk houses, the monk houses face the center of the monastery, the buildings above the base have long disappeared, and now only from the remaining base can imagine the glory of the Buddha, trying to restore the glory of the past, it is embarrassing. When walking to the grass of the ruins of the monk house below, the sky behind me showed golden sunlight, and it was slanted on the ruins of the main temple. The sky ahead was still dark and cloudy, and the air from the rain condensed into a vortex, generating electricity and thunder. I was very impressed by the strange sky. As a Chinese, standing on this ruin is especially different because of the footprints left by Xuanxuan more than 1,400 years ago. <ctag id="17" type="4" businesstype="1"># Historic Monuments </ctag> <ctag id="6421" type="4" businesstype="9"># Backpacker Tour </ctag> <ctag id="5647" type="4" businesstype="9"># Bangladesh </ctag> <ctag id="305" type="4" businesstype="1"># Buddhism </ctag> <ctag id="110588" type="4" businesstype="1"># City Humanities Handbook</ctag>