Abstract The ancient dwelling patterns in Pundranagar, a historically significant city of Bengal, provide crucial insights into the socio-cultural and architectural practices of its time. This study employs a multidisciplinary framework integrating archaeological data, spatial morphology, and comparative architectural theory to propose an interpretive hypothesis on the nature of these dwellings. By examining the remnants of ancient structures, historical records, and material culture, the research reconstructs the domestic environment of Pundranagar and analyzes its spatial organization, environmental adaptation, and relation to sacred and civic infrastructure. The discussion distinguishes empirical observations from interpretive reconstruction, emphasizing how these architectural forms may have reflected early awareness of climatic comfort and collective well-being. While constrained by fragmentary excavation records and reliance on published data up to 1999, the study suggests that Pundranagar’s domestic architecture represented an adaptive and integrated component of early urbanism in Bengal.
DOZA et al. (Thu,) studied this question.