Place · Shakta pitha · India
Shrinkhalā, Pandua
The Shakta Pitha at Pandua (Furfura Sharif area) in Hooghly district, West Bengal, counted among the eighteen Maha Shakta Pithas as the site where Sati's shoulder or spine fell. The village of Pandua was the Firuz Shah Tughlaq-period Bengal sultanate's capital Pandua (Hazrat Pandua) from 1352 to 1452, and the Adina Masjid built there by Sikandar Shah in 1375 is one of the largest medieval mosques in the subcontinent. The Shrinkhala shrine (named for the ritual chain) sits in the sultanate town — Shakta goddess shrine inside an Islamic political capital. The goddess is worshipped as the chain binding dharma.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.070, 88.290
Connections (1)
- Site withinPandua (Firozabad)
Shrinkhalā, Pandua sits inside Pandua (Firozabad) 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
Hindu pilgrimage sites in India — Wikipedia
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