What is the old name of Bengal?

Q. What is the old name of Bengal?
Answer: Ganaridai
Notes: Bengal was referred to as Ganaridai by the ancient Greeks around 100 BC, meaning, speculatively, a land with the river Ganga in its seat of the Gupta Empire. The first recorded independent king of Bengal was Shashank, reigning around the early 7th century.

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