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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Chinnamasta Temple, Bishnupur, West Bengal

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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