Shalban vihara

Shalban vihara is an archaeological website online in Mainamati, Cumilla, Bangladesh. The ruins are inside the middle of the Lalmai hills ridge, and those are of a 7th-century Paharpur-fashion Buddhist viharas with about a hundred cells for monks. It operated through the twelfth century. Excavations have revealed many archaeological artifacts dated to among the 7th and 12th centuries. Most of them are kept in the Mainamati Museum now. The big square monastery of 550-foot aspects with 115 monastic cells, a dominant critical shrine and some of subsidiary shrines. Stupas and chapels, presents get right of entry to through its huge gateway at the north.

While the significant shrine revealed six constructing phases and the monastery four. The 1^st and 2^nd stages of the critical shrine remains buried below the ruins of the 3rd, 4th and 5th intervals however the remains of the 6th segment have been removed from the top. The cruciform central shrine of 0.33 built with the monastery as a single complicated. In the middle of each wing, the monastery verandah is provided with a shallow projection to serve as the base for a flight of steps main all the way down to the brick-paved courtyard, the arrangement in the front side being large and extra complicated.

The shrine at Shalban Vihara is certainly not but six exceptional systems constructed successively on the identical spot in unique durations and on extraordinary plans. They offer exciting evidence of the evolution and slow transforming of the traditional Buddhist stupa architecture into that of the Hindu temple. The remains of the first two intervals are hidden below the cruciform shrine of period III which changed into built with the monastery as a single complicated. It is an exceedingly thrilling piece of structure similar to in ground plan a Greek go, fifty one.8m lengthy with chapels constructed within the projecting hands. Its basement partitions are decorated with a string direction of delightfully sculptured terracotta plaques set inside parallel bands of decorative bricks.