Mainamati in Comilla

It is known as the Seat of Lost Dynasties. About 8 km to the west of Comilla city, situated 114 km southeast of Dhaka, lies a range of low hills known as the Mainamati-Lalmai ridge, which was an extensive centre of Buddhist culture. On the slopes or these hills lie spread a treasure of information about the early Buddhist culture (7th-12th Century AD.). At Salban in the center or the ridge, excavations have laid bare a big Buddhist Vihara (monastery) with an imposing central shrine. It has revealed costly information about the rule of the Chandra and Deva dynasties which Flourished here from the 7th to the 12th century AD. The total range of hillocks runs for about 18 km and is studded with more than 50 sites. A place museum houses the archaeological finds which include terra cotta plaques, bronze statues and caskets, coins, jewellery, utensils, pottery and votive stupas embossed with Buddhist inscriptions.