Bhubaneswari Temple

On my way from Udaipur towards a place called Killa inside the mountains, we stumbled across a piece of history that is famous as Bhubaneswari Temple. Udaipur is the third largest city of Tripura after Agartala and Dharmanagar. It houses some of the most famous temples in this state including the great Tripureshwari Temple which gives the state its name.

Bhubaneswari Temple built by Maharaja Govinda Manikya in the year of 1660A.D. is famous for its almost unique architecture where a tomb having a "Charchala" roof is constructed over an elevated platform or Stupa. The tomb once used to be crowned with gold covering which was later removed along with the idol inside and donated to some museum.

The place has some interesting history. This temple used to be have "narbali" (beheading of humans to appease god). Rabindranath Tagore also used to spend a lot of time in this temple and he actually used this temple as a backdrop of his notoriously famous drama "Bisharjan" as well as his novel "Rajarshi". Bisharjan had narbali as a huge topic which caused a lot of public debate. Narbali was then banned here and the place lost itself in the books of History. Fortunately, a lot of people still throng the place for prayers though the inside wears a deserted look.

Udaipur is around 2 hours journey by car from Agartala. Just ask anyone for the location to Bhubaneswari Temple and you can will be directed to this place in the middle of mountains. The place could actually become a haven for tourists looking to spend some time with themselves away from all the hue and cry of life.

Since I did mention....Killa where we were actually headed is a small tribal town further into the mountains which used to be notorious for lots of problems earlier including arson, dacoity etc. Now the place has improved though people still find it strange if someone comes over by car and visits the place.

Till next time....

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