Place · Shakta pitha · India
Nalāteśwarī, Nalhati
Where Sati's throat pipe (nala) fell. In Birbhum district, the goddess Kalika Devi is worshipped. Part of Birbhum's Shakta cluster with Bakreshwar, Kankalitala and Attahas, giving the district four pithas and making it one of the densest Shakti Pitha regions in India.
Shakti
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Shakta pitha tradition; Tantra Chudamani / Devi Bhagavata enumeration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.299, 87.826
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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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