Origin of Bangla (First Part) A Mythical Voyage

By Dibyendu Chakraborty

By the beckoning of destiny, Naru could deduce that the word 'Bangla' was coined by the Tibetan traders. Nobody knows for sure where the word 'Bangla' came from. Curiosity about origin and lineage is an integral part of human existence. Naru, an ever curious Bengali by birth, found an explanation in his own way, which he thought to share with a considerably big group known as Bengali and speaking Bangla language.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: May 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9783748739845

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Acknowledgement

Who showed the path 

Preface

Where did the word Bengali come from? That question irritates every Bengali in one or the other chapter of life. However, no good answer to that question becomes available either from the parents or from the teachers.

Having found the answer to that age-old question by combining some arguments with his own life experience, Naru has tried to share it with other Bengalis. The Tibetan merchants did the coining of the term Bangla.

Chapter One Introduction

Rollercoaster     

A dream was paying regular visits in Naru’s sleep after the termination of the Bangalore phase of his life. He was trying his best to kick-start the next phase of his earnings. In his dreams, a chariot-like vehicle was appearing which was so short in length that it could hardly accommodate its four wheels on which it was moving. Naru used to find himself on the howdah-like seat of the vehicle, which was exceptionally tall. It would be as tall as a three-storied building in Naru's imagination. The moment he discovered himself on top of that running vehicle, Naru could easily feel the position of the last bone of the spinal cord with which presently extinct tail of the human species was said to be connected. That bone used to let its position be felt. No question was there to get woke up with a jolt as his life tempered his soul in its furnace for a considerably long time. The vehicle generally started to move in a jolty and unbalanced manner, making it difficult to remain in the seat. Neither the vehicle had ever reached its destination nor got Naru grounded ever.

Finding himself in a similar precarious situation was beyond question while he used to dream in an awakened state. 

It was a long time that Naru mastered the art of dreaming awake. Actually, he enjoyed that art very much. Riches were never a topic of his dream in that state. His dreams revolved around unknotting some unanswered questions that he was carrying in his mind for a considerably long period. He gathered these questions along the course of his formal education. Every now and then, he found answers to a lot of these unsolved questions only to reject them at a later date in the light of newly accumulated information. Even the rejections brought him satisfaction and a sense of joy, which was very precious to him. Nullifying his own derivation with sharper logic was a source of gratification for him.

During that period a number of times, he experienced another dream involving a sky-high swing. He would swing around it and at times used to feel that he would fall off it. At those times, that very bone used to register its existence. His dreams never brought him to a point where he was ultimately thrashed to the ground. Many times his dreams left him in the mid-air when broken. It is not a case that he never tried to show audacity to decipher dreams; he does it even today. His achievement in that field was of no difference than that of the others.

His fate catapulted him to the Himalayas from his birthplace in the Gangetic plains at the end of that short stint of his life. In the beginning, he was at the lap of the hills and, ultimately, within a short period of time he was placed at the hilltop. The nature of the jobs he could ever manage to grab was such that travel always remained an integral part of his life. Travel inside the entanglement of the Himalayas always called for going up and down continuously.

Chapter Two Query Build-up

Similarities in Names

The end of the dreamy-childhood called for his admission to the secondary school. He went to the biggest school in his district. That school has the distinction of being one of the few modern era schools in the whole country, which started its journey about a