Tripureshwari Temple - Udaipur, Tripura

You might feel that I am doing this blogs for the temples....thats not the case. Even though it was my third visit to Tripureshwari, it was one of the best. The temple has a pond near it. Some interesting things about it...beautiful fish (and loads of them as seen alongside) and turtles (which I did not see). The saying about the turtles is that when they near their death, they come into the temple which is almost 100 metres away and over a flight of around 40 stairs and then die in the temple's yard. At no other point in their lives do they go near the temple!

Other tidbits about the temple:

It is as important in Hindu religion as the Kamakhya temple having as much faith as Kamakhya.

The temple is the reason why the state has got the name of Tripura.

It is in a place called Udaipur which at one time used to be the center of economic and political activity in Tripura before Agartala took that place. Udaipur is around 2 hours drive from Agartala on lovely smooth roads going southwards. If you plan to go their, also take a visit to Sabrum (the southernmost point in Tripura) where you will get to see a palace of the earlier kings of Tripura. It is in middle of a huge lake.

A little bit on Tripura: It is predominantly bengali culture with fish being the staple diet. Their is a restaurant in Agartala which even serves Turtle meat. Delicious though a little bit hard! Bengali is the main language though the bengali spoken here is not the same as the one in West Bengal...Bangladesh surrounds Tripura on three sides. The place used to be very well off economically before the border between India and Bangladesh got fenced off. Now illegal trade happens across numerous points but actual trade is not that high. Rubber, tea and bamboo are primary cash crops along with pineapples which are grown during season. You will actually get one pineapple for 50 paise now after the border got closed since the demand has gone down.

Rest next time...

Ciao

Nishant