Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Akalipur:


Birbhum district of West Bengal is the land of Goddess Kalika. So many Sati Peeth (one of the fifty-one places consecrated to the worship of Pārbati after dismemberment and the dispersion of her dead body), Kali shrines and lots of Kali Sadhakas (seeker) lived here. In this holy Birbhum there is a village called Akalipur where one can see the Devi Gujjhya Kalika, a different form of Goddess Kali. 






 The black stone deity sitting on a snake has two hands. She is garlanded with a snake and human skull. Mythology says, once this idol was worshipped by Jarasandha, King of Magadha. 


The curtain rose after so many years when Rani Ahalya Bai Holkar found it from debris and handed it over to Raja Chait Singh of Kashi because Ahalya Bai was a devotee of Lord Shiva. Warren Hastings of East India Company attacked Kashi and looted all the valuables from Chait Singh including this deity and sends it Kolkata via Ganges.


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