Tribeni
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Tribeni ত্রিবেণী |
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 Tribeni
 Tribeni
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| Coordinates: 22°59′N 88°24′E / 22.99°N 88.40°ECoordinates: 22°59′N 88°24′E / 22.99°N 88.40°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Limits |
| • Body | Bansberia Municipality |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 712503 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-WB |
| Nearest city | Bandel |
Tribeni is a small town in Hooghly in the state of West Bengal, India. It was an old holy place for the Hindus. The sanctity of the place has been recognized for many centuries and has been mentioned in Pavana-Dutam, a Sanskrit piece of the last quarter of the 12th century. The Muslims took it over during early phases of their conquest of Bengal.
Tribeni is located at 22°59′N 88°24′E / 22.99°N 88.40°E.
Tribeni is believed to get its name from the divergence of three rivers, Yamuna, Ganga and Saraswati. The probable earlier names were “Muktaveni”, which distinguished it from Prayag, Allahabad, known as Yuktaveni; “Terbonee” was spelled in James Rennell's map of Bengal in 1781. The River Saraswati surfaces from besides the famous Hindu cremate area, commonly known as ‘Shashan ghat’, towards south west into Saptagram. This leaves the river Ganges, variedly known as Hooghly or Bhagirathi to descend to the sea. The Ghat was built by a Hindu king of Orissa, Mukunda Dev which left an influence of Odisha in Tribeni visible on the temples near the ghat. The Yamuna, commonly pronounced as Jamuna in Bengali, had earlier branched off from the Ganges towards south east, but the confluence has silted up with course of time.
The town is on the western banks of the Ganges with no plateau or hills in its close vicinity and hosts one of the earliest surviving monuments of Muslim in West Bengal, Zafar Khan Gazi’s Mosque. The mosque bears an Arabic chronogram, 1298 though there remains evidence that suggests it was remodeled over time. The date is further corroborated by the fact that Tribeni along with nearby areas were occupied by Zafar Khan in 1267, after around 60 years from the conquest of Bengal. Its doorways have Hindu Vaishnavite sculptures inscribed which can be associated to the temple on which probably the mosque was built.
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