榜葛剌

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (榜葛剌)		榜	葛	剌
simp. #(榜葛剌)		榜	葛	剌

Etymology

From Bengali বাংলা (baṅla)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bǎnggélà

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˇ ㄍㄜˊ ㄌㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bǎnggélà
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˇ ㄍㄜˊ ㄌㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bǎnggélà
    • Wade–Giles: Pang³-ko²-la⁴
    • Yale: Bǎng-gé-là
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baanggerlah
    • Palladius: Бангэла (Bangɛla)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ³⁵ lä⁵¹/

Proper noun

榜葛剌

1. (archaic) Bengal

   • 榜葛剌，即漢身毒國，東漢曰天竺。其後中天竺貢於梁，南天竺貢於魏。唐亦分五天竺，又名五印度。宋仍名天竺。榜葛剌則東印度也。自蘇門答剌順風二十晝夜可至。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     榜葛剌，即汉身毒国，东汉曰天竺。其后中天竺贡于梁，南天竺贡于魏。唐亦分五天竺，又名五印度。宋仍名天竺。榜葛剌则东印度也。自苏门答剌顺风二十昼夜可至。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 17^th-18^th century, History of Ming

     Bǎnggělà, jí Hàn Juāndú guó, Dōnghàn yuē Tiānzhú. Qíhòu zhōng Tiānzhú gòng yú Liáng, nán Tiānzhú gòng yú Wèi. Táng yì fēn wǔ Tiānzhú, yòu míng Wǔyìndù. Sòng réng míng Tiānzhú. Bǎnggělà zé dōng Yìndù yě. Zì sūméndálà shùnfēng èrshí zhòuyè kě zhì. [Pinyin]

     Bengal was the state referred as "Juandu" in Han dynasty and then "Tianzhu" in Eastern Han. After that, central Tianzhu offered tribute to Liang dynasty and Southern Tianzhu offered tribute to Northern Wei. In Tang dynasty Tianzhu was divied into five parts, also known as five Indias. In Song dynasty the state was still referred as Tianzhu. Bengal was the eastern part of India. It took 20 days and nights to sail downwind from Sumatra to there.