The temple in 1896 is describedĪs being “an ordinary pucca room”, 10 square feet and some 20 feet in height, To erect the temple, which he dutifully did in in 1708. Suddharam Ghoshal, who in turn instructed his brother, Dewan Hara Nath Ghoshal The Brahman was a poor man, andĬouldn’t afford to build a temple and hence approached the local Zamindar, Raja Shiva appeared and commanded him to have the linga removed, and have a templeĬonstructed for it on the banks of the river. That night the Brahman had a dream in which Lord One day, he decided theįollow the cow into the forest and found it depositing all its milk onto the Into the forest every day, and when it came back, upon trying to milk it, theīrahman would discover that all its milk was gone. States that a cow, belonging to the Brahmin residing in the area, would venture

So who is this Dakshineswar and where is his temple? That is the But the name Dakshineswar definitely refers to a Hindu deity of Is erroneously called Dakshineswar because that is the name of the village it Even if the idol was ofĭakshina Kali, then the temple’s name couldn’t have been Dakshineswar, butĭakshineswari – that crucial “i” in the end makes it a female name. Is of Bhavatarini, one of the many aspects of Kali. This too is incorrect, because the idol housed in Rani Rashmoni’s temple Many peopleīelieve that it is called Dakshineswar, because the idol inside is of Dakshina Is a temple, and it is in Dakshineswar, the name of a temple of Goddess KaliĬannot be “Dakshineswar”, because Dakshineswar is a male name. But the temple isĬommonly referred to as the “Dakshineswar Temple”, which is incorrect. West Bengal and is visited by lakhs of devotees every month. The temple is, in fact, one of the most popular Kali Temples of Village (Barrackpore Subdivision, North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal), isįalse or fake. Suggest that the Kali Temple established by Rani Rashmoni in the Dakshineswar Let me start off by clarifying that I do not mean to

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