In the language of Unesco, ‘Bryggen is a historic harbour district in Bergen, one of North Europe’s oldest port cities on the west coast of Norway which was established as a centre for trade by the 12th century. In 1350 the Hanseatic League established a “Hanseatic Office” in Bergen…The buildings here are made of wood in keeping with vernacular building traditions. The original compact medieval urban structure is preserved with its long narrow rows of buildings facing the harbour, separated by narrow wooden passages…’.
The buildings are known by the name “gård”. This term stands to depict a ‘Gada’, means the ‘fort’, where soldiers and ammunitions are kept to protect the settlements. The narrow passages highlights the secret ‘ways’ to escape from an attack by the enemy; the small storerooms locally known as kjellere, built behind the ‘gada’, secures the memory of the land from where the migrants came and settled at Bryggen. While the latter identifies the Byaghra or Bagha means the ‘Tiger’’, a place-name, name of a goddess, also name of a Highway on the bank of a river in this same name, name of Bhaga marks a tribe; this name not only pinpoints ancient Kapilavastu but also Troy or Toya, the city on the Tiger’s Path or the ‘Vyaghra-patha’ . Names like, Bhagalavati, Bhagiratha( a king), Sage Bhagu or Bhrugu, Bhagaavagotta(a clothed wanderer), Bhargavi(a river), Bhandagama( a city and Vyaghapajja, city of the Koliyans, are all covered in this region of Bagha or the Tiger.
Very surprising is the name kjeller whose root is ‘Kajangala’, an ancient town which is at the centre of all world epics as it identifies the seat of Worship of Sage Kasyapa or Zeus of the Bible on the bank of the Kaspian Sea that derived its name from Kasyapa, same as Caspo, Kaspeira and Kesaba. Kajangala identifies the bird Kajalapatia whose identifies the bird and the country of its habitat in Kalinga and Kajangala. It was birthplace of Nagasena. Pali texts mention of a tribe called Pandara residing to the south of Kapilavastu or on the Tiger’s Path; ‘fondaco’ of Unesco;s literature attached with this site seems to have been linked either with Bhandaghara or with Pandara both being situated in one region . Name of assembly rooms of the site are locally called “Schøtstuer” or ‘schot–sture’, and this certainly marks the idea of ‘kotha–ghara’ means the common room or the common sitting room for all.
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