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Mahasthangarh, an Uncommon card
Mahasthangarh is the earliest urban archaeological site discovered so far in Bangladesh.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Mahasthangarh quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mahasthangarh card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was an ______ city under the Maurya Empire.
Answer
important. It was an important city under the Maurya Empire. From the Mahasthangarh article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
A limestone slab bearing six lines in Prakrit in Brahmi script recording a land grant, discovered in ____, dates Mahasthangarh to at least the 3rd century BCE.
Answer
1930s. A limestone slab bearing six lines in Prakrit in Brahmi script recording a land grant, discovered in 1931, dates Mahasthangarh to at least the 3rd century BCE. From the Mahasthangarh article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bingu wa Mutharika. Bingu wa Mutharika 34,000 · Alexander Griboyedov 25,000 · Mahasthangarh 16,000 · Haud 12,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The village Mahasthan in Shibganj upazila of Bogra District contains the remains of an ancient city which was called Pundranagara or Paundravardhanapura in the territory of Pundravardhana.
- A limestone slab bearing six lines in Prakrit in Brahmi script recording a land grant, discovered in 1931, dates Mahasthangarh to at least the 3rd century BCE.
- It was an important city under the Maurya Empire.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mahasthangarh article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Mahasthangarh (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Picture taken by P.K.Niyogi , people removed by GreenComputer, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
