Bay of Bengal: Difference between revisions

The bay gets its name from the historical [[Bengal]] region (Modern-day [[Bangladesh]] and the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]). In ancient scriptures, this water body may have been referred to as '<nowiki/>''Mahodadhi''' ([[Sanskrit]]: महोदधि, lit. ''great water receptacle'')<ref name="Kuttan">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nERVRxj22W0C&pg=PA243 | title=The Great Philosophers of India | publisher=AuthorHouse | author=Kuttan | year=2009 | isbn=978-1434377807}}{{self-published source|date=August 2016}}</ref><ref name="indiatourism4u">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiatourism4u.in/tourism/960/Tamil-Nadu/Dhanushkodi/ | title=Dhanushkodi | publisher=indiatourism4u.in | access-date=21 August 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308014348/http://www.indiatourism4u.in/tourism/960/Tamil-Nadu/Dhanushkodi | archive-date=8 March 2014 | url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=Citation is a random company website; there must be more scholarly sources for this.|date=August 2016}} while it appears as ''Sinus Gangeticus'' or ''Gangeticus Sinus'', meaning "Gulf of the Ganges", in ancient maps.<ref>[[commons:File:1794 Anville Map of the Ancient World - Geographicus - AncientWorld-anville-1794.jpg|1794, Orbis Veteribus Notus by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville]]</ref>

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