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[[Image:GokulMedh.jpg|thumb|400px|Gokul Medh, Mahasthan, Bogra]]
'''Gokul Medh '''an excavated mound in the village of Gokul under Bogra Sadar Upazila, about two km southwest of [[Mahasthan|mahasthan]] citadel. It is popularly known as [[Laksindarer Medh|laksindarer medh]] or Behula-Laksindarer Basar-ghar (the nuptial room of the traditional heroine and hero of a popular ballad, Behula and Laksindar. It is also associated with the angry snake godess [[Manasa|manasa]]. Excavations in 1934-36 by NG Majumdar revealed a gigantic shrine or [[Stupa|stupa]] plinth built in the terraced cellular style of construction. The plinth was built of 172 blind rectangular cells packed solidly with earth and arranged in gradually rising tiers to support a towering polygonal shrine. This kind of cellular style of terraced construction, in which many buttress-walls were erected side by side to support a central structure on top, is a very significant feature in the architecture of ancient Bangladesh.

This structure forms the base of a shrine or stupa of 6th-7th century AD. Some terracotta plaques of the late Gupta period associated with the shrine were also found. On top of this 5 metre high podium, a square temple with a porch was built during the Sena period (11th - 12th century AD). A stone-slab was discovered at the centre of the shrine; it consists of twelve shallow holes with a larger hole in the centre containing a tiny gold leaf bearing the figure of a recumbent bull in relief. This indicates that the shrine was a Siva temple. [Ayub Khan]

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