Talk:Bay of Bengal

Adding some important information about sea ports

Dear editors, It will be more informative if we attach the list of all the sea ports located and active in the bay of Bengal. If we do this it will be more easy to know about this bay and subcontinent. So please, We should do it Mohammad Ali Rplsc (talk) 07:24, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Madras State?

'it's now part of India's Madras State '!. Are we making up states now? 73.46.159.225 (talk) 00:12, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Kalinga Sagar

Here it is written, in the classical India the Bay of Bengal was called Kalinga Sagar. But the sources of this information are not trustworthy. Because Mr. Mohanty gave his own opinion and also Bay of Bengal does not include only Kalinga region of India. So how can we say that? Kushdeep12 (talk) 15:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

This is cited to an article in the The Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, a peer-reviewed journal. This is a top-tier source and attempts to remove it or tag it as unreliable are completely improper. MrOllie (talk) 16:11, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Already read the journal. This journal is just someone's opinion. He didn't mention it in which historical source it was written "Kalinga Sagar". The citation is not not trustworthy.And how did you know, it is a peer reviewed journal? Kushdeep12 (talk) 16:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

It clearly says so on the website of the journal as well as at the given jstor link. MrOllie (talk) 16:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Clearly says? It doesn't give any reference of historical books. It is just someone's research paper. Kushdeep12 (talk) 17:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

We do not require peer-reviewed sources to meet your personal standards, only those of the journal's editors and reviewers. MrOllie (talk) 17:27, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Then why are you replying? Did I ask you to reply? Or I can't write anything in talk page. Even I can give a valuable source. Kushdeep12 (talk) 17:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

The purpose of the talk page is to discuss. Why did you post here if you don't want people to reply? MrOllie (talk) 17:43, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

That's why I posted; Group Discussion.But someone wrote "we don't need your..." so I can also write please don't reply. Kushdeep12 (talk) 17:51, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Prayers to the sea on Paush Purnima

​​​On 08:23, 29 May 2025 (UTC) an editor deleted the section on religious importance, saying: Not enough citation since 2022

On 14:24, 23 June 2025 (UTC) another reverted back, saying: Does not justify complete removal, rv to original version A protest about his/her doing so is at WP:AE.

There are now citations for all statements except the last. I cannot find a citation for On Paush Purnima of every year the Shankaracharya himself comes out to offer prayers to the sea, and propose to delete this uncited (and not particularly relevant) statement unless someone can provide a citation that supports it. Another solution would be to reword it so that it can be supported.-- Toddy1 (talk) 20:09, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

@Toddy1 Okay good that all other portions have citations. I have citations for the last statement too that I'll shortly attach it there. This completely justifies my reverting. The previous editor simply removed the whole passage (even when it had citations including the Deccan Herald) in it. Sadly it was prematurely escalated by another editor in WP:AE. Editking100 (talk) 20:40, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

@Toddy1 Hey, Toddy1. In the reference no 39 attached to the line above the last statement. If you look into the same source (in the first paragraph, last line has clear mention of the claim made here on the last line regd the Shankaracharya himself coming to pray. So we can attach it to the same source 39 above. Also the same claim is there on the historyofodisha.in even if you search the last sentence, you'll find the same wording. Hope that helps Editking100 (talk) 20:50, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. The citation to historyofodisha.in does support the statement, and I have replaced the citation needed tag with a citation to it.

The Deccan Herald said "On the evening of Pausha Poornima, a unique prayer rose from Swargadwar on Puri Beach." It did not support that Swargadwar did this every year, and it did not support that Swargadwar prayed to the sea.-- Toddy1 (talk) 21:42, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

"Bayofbengal" listed at Redirects for discussion

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