Ancient Bangladesh: Sitakot Bihar

 Sitakot Bihar is a Buddhist monastery. It is located in Nawabganj upazila under Dinajpur district. The Bihar was built roughly on a square plan (65.23m east - west and 64.11m north - south) with large outside projection on the northern and southern wings.

 The gateway complex, which had a wide frontage, was set in the middle of the northern wing as a part of the outer projection. The complex included two guardrooms. The approach to the monastery was through an open space. The main gateway led to an entrance hall, which was aligned with the monastic cells. The northern end of the eastern wing had a subsidiary entrance piercing the back wall. The outer projection on the south was built as a kind of hall and there was an entrance into the hall from the inside. There were in all 41 cells in this monastery: 8 in the northern wing and 11 cells each in the three other wings.
The back wall of the niche rooms and rooms were divided by walls. Bihar was combined with an internal trail corridor rooms. The statue was kept. The main house on the south side of the room was very possible. Pyabhiliyanati front pillar main temple to be used as first-W. A little away from the main building on the south side of the convent building but connected by covered front balcony with five rooms available. C-itadera opinion, these toilets were built as. For concrete ceiling lime, mortar and beams can be used for load.

Sitakota convent courtyard in the middle was the main temple. Here Paharpur, Sal Bihar and Bihar joy as traditional terracotta missing. However, in terms of size and volume of the Vasu Bihar district has much in common with sitakota Bihar The major findings are two bronze images, one of Bodhisattva Padmapani and the other of Bodhisattva Manjushri. On the stylistic ground the images have been dated in the seventh-eight century AD. The monastery has not been dated by stratigraphy, but two building periods have been postulated