Chhinnamasta Temple

Chhinnamasta Temple is located at Dalmadal Para in Bishnupur town in Bankura district of West Bengal state and is a Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Shakti. The temple is believed to have been built during the 19th century and is about 100 years old.

It was built by the Guin family of Midnapore. There are legends about the temple that once Mata Parvati, with her friends Dakini and Varnini, went to take a bath in the river Mandakini.

She was happy, but her friends were hungry. She repeatedly asked for something to eat, then the mother laughed and cut her head with her fingernail. Suddenly the blood was scattered in three directions. Two of his friends drank blood from two ways, and the goddess herself drank blood from the rest.

Since she was beheaded, she was known as Chhinnamasta. The goddess develops in a red desert sandstone. The temple is small, consisting of the main temple and another sub-temple.

In the sanctum sanctorum, Devi has two Yogini attendants, Dakini and Varnini. She holds his severed head in his right hand and a sword in his left. Temples depict the ferocious form of the goddess.

Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. The sub- shrine of the temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva Linga.

It is a place to pay homage and devotion and pray for the blessings of Maa Chhinnamasta.