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Bang

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Bang
Born
Other namesBung, Bong
💼 Occupation
Settler
Known forSettlement
👪 RelativesḤām (grandfather), Noah (great-grandfather)

Bang (var. Bung or Bong; Bengali: বঙ্গ) was a legendary progenitor who is considered to have been the first person to settle in the what is now called the Bengal region of South Asia.

History[edit]

A portrait of Flavius Josephus in the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Bang is described as a son of Hind, who was the son of Ham (son of Noah).[1] In the first century, Romano-Jewish historian Josephus asserted that the descendants of Ham had populated parts of Asia. Hafiz Shamsuddin of Gulyana claims that Ham died in Gharibwal, a Shia-populated village in present-day Pakistan, where a 78-foot long tomb can still be found today.[2][3]

According to many documented sources and Abrahamic historians,[4] the patriarch Bang was the first to settle in what is now known as the Bengal region of South Asia.[5] It said that after settling there, he had children and effectively founded a great tribe also known as Bang.[6] This is also backed up by 16th-century historians Firishta and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak.

In Sanskrit literature, a certain Vaṅga finds mention in the Mahabharata, Puranas and the Harivamsha. He is mentioned as the founder of the eponymous Vaṅga Kingdom centred in present-day Barisal, and spread across southern Bengal only.[7] In contrast to the Generations of Noah, Vaṅga is considered to be one of the adopted sons of King Vali instead. The legend claims that Vali requested a sage named Gautama Dirghatamas of Magadha to bless him with sons. The sage was said to have begotten five sons through Queen Sudesna.[8] The princes were named Aṅga, Vaṅga, Kaliṅga, Suhma and Pundra. Among them, Pundra's kingdom was based in North Bengal and Suhma's kingdom included southwestern West Bengal.[9]

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References[edit]

  1. Land of Two Rivers, Nitish Sengupta
  2. Warraich, Shehryar (22 December 2015). "Grave matters". Jang.com.pk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
  3. "Tomb of Hazrat Ham Requires Attention of the Government". The 6 News. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 16 September 2015.
  4. Trautmann, Thomas (2005). Aryans and British India. Yoda Press. p. 53. Search this book on
  5. Firishta (1768). Dow, Alexander, ed. History of Hindostan. pp. 7–9. Search this book on
  6. Salim, Ghulam Husain (1902). RIYAZU-S-SALĀTĪN: A History of Bengal. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Search this book on
  7. Thaker, Jayant Premshankar, ed. (1970). Laghuprabandhasaṅgrahah. Oriental Institute. p. 111. Search this book on
  8. Devendrakumar Rajaram Patil (1946). Cultural History from the Vāyu Purāna. Motilal Banarsidass Pub. p. 46. ISBN 9788120820852. Search this book on
  9. Gaṅgā Rām Garg (1992). Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World, Volume 1. Concept Publishing Company. ISBN 9788170223740. Retrieved 28 October 2012. Search this book on



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