Place · Shakta pitha · Bangladesh
Jeśoreśwarī Kālī, Ishwaripur
Where Sati's palms fell. At Ishwaripur in Satkhira district of Bangladesh, the Yashoreshwari Kali temple houses the goddess. Once a major shrine under the Pratapaditya dynasty of the sixteenth century, the temple survives in reduced form and remains an active pilgrimage site for Bangladesh's Hindu community.
Shakti
- Periods
- Classical and Puranic Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Shakta pitha tradition; Tantra Chudamani / Devi Bhagavata enumeration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 22.317, 89.100
On these journeys
Sources
D.C. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas (1948, rev. 1973), and the pīṭha lists of the Devī Bhāgavata and the Pīṭhanirṇaya.
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