Sri Sugandha Shakti Peeth – Shikarpur, Bangladesh

 

Sri Sugandha Shakti Peeth is located in Shikarpur Village near Barisal in Bangladesh.

Goddess Sunanda is an incarnation of Goddess Parvati

Here Lord Shiva is worshipped as Traimbak.

The temple is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas, and Sati Devi's Nose is said to have fallen here.

It was famously called Shikarpur Tarabari by locals.

The Sugandha Shakti Peeth complex is entirely built of stone, with god sculptures and images carved into it. The sculptures on display are captivating. Shine from the marble used to build the temple and its reflection in the river.

Sati was the first wife of Shiva and the first incarnation of Parvati. She was the daughter of King Daksha and Queen (the daughter of Brahma). She committed self-immolation at the sacrificial fire of a yagna performed by her father Daksha as she felt seriously distraught by her father's insult to her husband and also to her by not inviting both of them to the yagna. Shiva was so grieved after hearing of the death of his wife that he danced around the world in a Tandav Nritya (“devastating penance” or dance of destruction) carrying Sati's dead body over his shoulders. Perturbed by this situation and to bring Shiv to a state of normalcy, Vishnu decided to use his Sudarshan Chakra (the rotating knife s carried on his fingertip). He dismembered Sati's body with the chakra into several pieces. Wherever her body fell on the earth, the place was consecrated as a divine shrine to Shakthi Peeth with the deities of Sati (Parvati) and Shiva. At temple Sugandha, Goddess Sati’s Nose was fallen. Sugandha is also a Hindi/Sanskrit name as a reference to the nose. Such places have become famous pilgrimage places as Pithas or Shakthi Pithas, and are found scattered all over the subcontinent including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, apart from India. Sati is also known as Devi or Shakthi, and with the blessings of Vishnu, she was reborn as the daughter of Himavat or Himalayas and hence named Parvati (daughter of mountains).

How to reach the Temple

21 km from Shikarpur

16 km from Barisal.