Tripura News:Tripura tourist place tripura sundari temple

Tripura News:Tripura tourist place tripura sundari temple

The temple is situated in the ancient city of Udaipur, about 55 km from Agartala, Tripura and can be reached by train and road from Agartala.

Address: Fulkumari, Udaipur, Tripura 799013

Hours: 24 hour

  

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  Tripura sundari Temple 

Founder=Maharaja dhanya Manikya

     Established date=1501AD

The temple is considered to be one of the 51

Shakti Peethas; legend says that the little finger of the left leg of Sati fell here. Here, Shakti is worshipped as Tripurasundarī and the accompanying Bhairava is Tripuresh. The main shrine, a cubical edifice with a three-tier roof with a finial, erected by Maharaja of Tripura

Dhanya Manikya in 1501 AD, is constructed in the Bengali Ek-ratna style..

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There are two similar but different sized black stone idols of the Goddess in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. The larger and more prominent idol of 5 feet height is of Goddess

Tripura Sundari and the smaller one, adorably called Chhoto-Ma (literally, Little Mother), is 2 feet tall and is an idol of Goddess Chandi . Folklore says that the smaller idol was carried by the kings of Tripura to the battlefield.

Every year on the occasion of Diwali, a famous Mela takes place near the temple which is visited by more than 0.2 million pilgrims..#corona latest update

History 

Legend has it that King Dhanya Manikya, who ruled over Tripura in the closing years of the 15th century, had a revelation one night in a dream in which Goddess Tripura Sundari instructed him to initiate her worship on the hilltop near the town of Udaipur, the contemporary capital of the kingdom. The king found out that a temple on the hillock was already dedicated to Lord Vishnu. He was in a dilemma, unable to decide how a temple dedicated to Vishnu could have an idol of

Shakti . The following night, the divine vision was repeated. The king understood that Vishnu and Shakti were different forms of the same Supreme Deity (Brahman ). Thus, the temple of Tripura Sundari came into being around the year 1501 AD. In the dawn of this century, the temple has crossed 500 years. This legend is recounted as an example of solidarity between two sub-groups of Hinduism: the Vaishnava and the Shakta sects...

Tourist attractions 

Goddess is worshipped as Tripura Sundari. Local variants of the name of the goddess are Tripureśwarī or Ṣoḍaśī . The temple is a small cubical edifice, measuring 24 square feet at the base with a height of 75 feet. The shrine is situated on a small hillock which resembles in shape the hump of a tortoise, which gives it the name of Kurma Pīṭha . As in other typical Hindu temples, stalls along the road to the temple sell flowers and baskets of offerings that visitors can buy and offer to the goddess as Prasādam . The common Prasādam offered here is the Peda . The red hibiscus flower (রক্তজবা) is also prized as an offering to the goddess.

There is another Tripura Sundari temple in

Chhatrabhog on the bank of Hooghly (also called Ādigangā ) in Gangasagar region of the

South 24 Paraganas in West Bengal near the

Sundarbans where, according to local mythology, King Kalinda, the 27th descendant (34th from Chandra) of Druhyu of the

Chandravansha set up first Tripura Sundari idol (according to popular belief, made of wood).

In an early Tantrik book Kubjikā Tantram composed in 8-9th century, there is the mention of a Shakti Peetha in Gangasagar, which most probably refers to Chhatrabhog. From a source of foreign traders, collected by Rev. James Long published in the journal of

Asiatic Society (Vol-XIX) in 1850, it is found that there were about five port towns in the aforesaid region, one of which was named Tiparia [1] . So that Tiparia city or town was the fatherland of old Tripura Dynasty.