Vater Vita is an archaeological site located in Tila village on the north bank of Fatki river, 14 km from Magura Sadar upazila. A Buddhist Sanghyaram is believed to have been established in Tila village from the third century of the Maurya Empire to the Gupta Empire around 321 BCE. At that time a courthouse was built to administer the governance of the region and a high place was built west of Tila village to punish criminals. Locally this place is known as Chota Tila or Bhatar Vita. Even though various parts of the country are inundated by floods, Tila village is never flooded. But according to locals, a spiritual dervish built this vita and hence the place is considered a holy place.
There is also a popular legend behind the naming of rice as Vita. A dervish with miraculous powers stopped on the banks of the Fatki river and started building a mosque here in one night for the purpose of offering prayers. In the middle of the construction work, preparations were made to cook rice for food, but before the cooking was finished, the silence of the night was broken by the sound of birds. In this situation, leaving the work of the mosque unfinished, the dervish left. In the morning everyone can see the unfinished mosque, the cooked rice and the pond created by rolling the rice fan next to it. This hill higher than that is called Bhatar Vita. And the fan of rice is rolled in one place like a pond and it is called Fanghaly Pond.
Excavations under the Department of Archeology have revealed the existence of a Buddhist Sangha of the Gupta Empire, a 4 feet long hand and a multi-roomed small building like the Paharpur Buddha Vihara. Later, a mosque was built at Vat Vitha and the locals offered regular prayers here.
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