Place · Shakta pitha · India
Kirīteśwarī, Murshidabad
Where Sati's crown or diadem fell. At Kiritkona in Murshidabad district on the Ganga, the goddess Vimala is worshipped. It belongs to the concentrated Bengali Shakta cluster with Bakreshwar, Attahas, Nalhati and Kalighat that gives West Bengal a disproportionate share of the network.
- 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
- 24.272, 88.190
Worth knowing
The Kiriteswari shrine lies in Murshidabad, once the capital of Bengal’s Nawabs. This places an ancient Hindu pilgrimage tradition within a region deeply shaped by Mughal, Nawabi and colonial history.
Connections (1)
- Site withinMurshidabad
Kirīteśwarī, Murshidabad sits inside Murshidabad and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
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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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