Places of Interest in Chandipur or Tarapith
Temple of Maa Tara : This present temple was built by "Jagannath Roy" of
Malharpur (name of the village near Rarapith) about 200 years back, when a powerful flood in
Dwarka River demolished the original temple built by
Joy Dutta. Jagannath Roy was also a grate devotee of Goddess. One night, Goddess Tara appeared in his dreams and informed him about a storage of wealth kept hidden in the jungle. Goddess suggested that he should use the wealth to build up the current temple building. At that time, the financial condition of common people was not good, people are very poor, no one had enough money to build a new temple. Divine and transcendental appearance of the Goddess Tara in the temple can be found in her Royal Attire.
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| Main Entrance Tarapith Temple |
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| Tarapith Temple, East Direction |
Sila Murti of Maa Tara:
Still, there is an age old stone statue of Goddess, famous as the name
"Sila-Murti of Maa Tara", its seeing abstract. In this
Sila Murti or stone statue, she feeding breast milk to infant
Lord Shiva. She appears in this from, when she asked
Maharshi Vasistha, "In which look you want to see me? As of your's choice of look, I appeared in front of you and to the world, because you are the first person who worship me. Firstly she appears as a lightning star or
tara to
Vasistha, then, as a request of
Vasistha, she appears in the look of Jagat-Janani or mother or everyone in Universe. After her look of, in which she feeding infant
Shiva, her breast milk turn into stone and
this statue lies hidden under the royal-attire. As the order of Goddess its make hidden. After 9 P.M. Indian Standard Time, its showing to all.
Chandrachur Bhairavh :
Where the Goddess
Adhya-Shakti is present in her different forms, Lord
Shiva would also be present there along with her as
Bhairavh. Here in
Tarapith Lord
Shiva appears in the aspect of
Chandrachur Bhairavh. His temple is also to the east side of Goddess Temple. There are temples of the supreme lord
Vishnu, Hanuman and
Bama Khyapa respectively in the Temple premises.
Atla :
Birth Place of grate Mad-Saint
"Bama Khyapa". He is also well known as son of
Goddess Tara for her miracles, It's 3 km from
Tarapith Bus stand. You can reached easily by rickshaws and autos.
Maha-Shamshan :
A place near the Temple, where dead bodies are burnt, cremated and buried. The place of burial of the
Shiva sage sect is quite far from that of the
Vaishnava sage sect. According to Hindu Iconography, sages are not burnt after death, the dead body of sages are burred in holy places or flow in any holy river.
Pancha-Mundi Asan of
Vashishtha Muni, Samadhi mandir of Bama Khyapa, Pad-Padma* foot prints of Goddess in a form of stone are situated together to the east of
Maha-Shamshan. Samadhi mandir* (tomb stone) of several other sages can also be found in this
Maha-Shamshan.
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| Heap of ashes and charcoal in Tarapith MahaSosan |
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| Samadhi Mandir of Different Sages in Tarapith Temple |
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| Foot Print of Goddess "Tara Pada Padma" |
Pada Padma of Goddess and Pancha-Mundi Assan in Maha-Shamshan :
In
Tarapith Maha-Shamshan, Stone Foot Print or
Sila Pada Padma of Goddess Tara and
Pancha-Mundi Assan made by Maharshi Vasistha is highly divine and significant.
Maharshi Vasistha, made this
Pancha-Mundi Assan or seat made by skulls of a human being, black snake, elephant, owl, monkey, as guided by Lord Buddha and with sit on this he got the boon and blessing of Goddess. This holy seat is used by various yogi or spiritual performer for spiritual practice, finally
Bama-Khyapa left his body, while sitting on this Assan and merge with Goddess or got Salvation. While meditation on this Pancha-Mundi Assan, a abstract dancing foot always disturbed
Mahashi Vasistha. He was able to know that she is Goddess and wants to test him, whether he is influenced by any dancing lady or not, by his supernatural power. As blessing, Goddess herself make this stone foot print for
Vasistha to worship.
Dwarka River :
North flowing river, on the bank of which Tarapith is situated.
Munda Malani Tala :
After
Maharshi Vasistha come back from Tibet, as advised from Buddha, he found the place where is the river
Dwarka is flowing in north direction. He started spiritual practice according as advised by Buddha. Once, a doubt grew in the mind of
Maharishi Vasistha, whether Goddess Tara is present in this place or not? He want to know the actual situation and he started to find out such things to conform, that whether goddess is present in there or not! During this searching, he went through a place where, he see a garland of divine human skulls is placed, which called as
Maha-Shankha Mala or Munda-Mala. He urge to know, whom was that garland and he starts meditate to know more by her third sense. During meditation what he is seeing, Goddess
Ugra Tara put her garland of human skull or
Munda-Mala at there and bathing in
Dwarka river. Then after this place is famous as
Munda Malani Tala and he come back to
pancha-mundi assana, sit and started his spiritual practice again.
Jivita Kunda :
In front of the temple there is a pond which is called
Jivita kunda ; in older times, all the supernatural miracles took place here, ghost and spirits roam across this pond and do miricales. At last Goddess give all the supernatural power of this kunda or pond to
Bama-Khyapa.
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| Jivita Kunda or Tarapith |
