Place · Shakta pitha · India
Ujānī / Mangalachandikā, Kogram
Where Sati's right wrist fell. At Kogram in Purba Bardhaman district on the Ajay river, the goddess Mangalachandika is worshipped. The Rarh clusters here again, giving Bardhaman four pithas within a small area and reflecting its role as a heartland of medieval Bengali Devi worship.
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
- 23.533, 87.917
Worth knowing
Ujani is associated with Kogram in Bardhaman, close to the Ajay River. Its traditions demonstrate how Bengal’s river systems shaped sacred geography. Many Shakti sites emerged along these waterways, which historically served simultaneously as transportation routes, economic networks and pilgrimage corridors.
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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