Chinnamasta Temple, Bishnupur,
West Bengal
Chinnamasta Temple is a Hindu
Temple dedicated to Goddess Sakthi located in Bishnupur Town in Bankura
District of West Bengal State, India. This
temple lies on the way to the Jor-Mandir group of Temples via the Dalmadal
Cannon/Gun. The Temple is located at about 1.5 Kms from Bishnupur Bus Stand, 4
Kms from Bishnupur Junction Railway Station and 2 Kms from Bishnupur New Bus
Stand.
Legends
Once Parvati went with her
friends Dakini and Varnini to take a bath in the Mandhakini River. Parvati was
feeling very content and a lot of love was welling up inside her. Her
complexion darkened, and the feeling of love completely overwhelmed her. Her
friends on the other hand were famished and asked Parvati to give them some
rations. Parvati requested them to wait and assumed that she would give food to
them after a while and began walking. After a short while, her friends once
again requested her, telling her that she was the Mother of the Universe and
they are her kids, and asked to be fed quickly.
Parvati replied that they should
remain calm until they return home. Her friends could not wait any longer and
demanded that their hunger be satisfied right away. The sympathetic Parvati
laughed and with her finger nail cut her own head. Immediately the blood
splashed in three directions. Her two friends gulped the blood from two of the
directions and the Goddess herself drank the blood from the remaining
direction. Since she cut her own head, she is known as Chinnamasta.
History
The Temple is believed to build
during 19th Century and is about 100 years Old. The Temple built by
the Guin family of Midnapore.
The Temple
The temple is very small having the
main shrine and another sub-shrine. The sanctum sanctorum enshrines Chinnamasta
along with her two Yogini attendants, Dakini and Varnini. The Deity has been
engraved out of Red Desert Sandstone. She holds her severed head in her right
arm and a sword in her left arm. She is a Tantric Goddess and depicts ferocious
form. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck, which are drunk by
her severed head and her two attendants. She is found standing on a human
couple who are resting on a big lotus. All the three female deities are found
without wearing any dress. There is a sub shrine in the temple dedicated
to Shiva in the form of Linga.
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