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The Dakshineswar Kali Temple (
The temple compound has temples dedicated to three major Hindu faiths.... apart from the nine-spired main temple, contains a large courtyard surrounding the temple, with rooms along the boundary walls. There are twelve shrines dedicated to the aspects of Shiva, Kali's companion, along the riverfront, a temple to Radha-Krishna, a bathing ghat on the river, a shrine to Rani Rashmoni. The chamber in the northwestern corner just beyond the last of the Shiva temples, is where Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa spent a considerable part of his life.
Dakshineswar temple complex
The Dakshineswar temple complex is located on the banks of the river Hoogly. The Temple complex includes a tall nin-turret temple of Kali, a temple for the Radha Krishna, and a string of twelve temples dedicated to Shiva.[3] The temples dedicated three major Hindu cults is considered unique.[3] The complex overlooks the Belur Math monastery across the river—the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission.[3]
Kali Temple
The main attraction in the temple complex is the Kali Temple. The temple is built in the traditional 'Nava-ratna' or nine spires style of
The
Bhavatarini
The presiding deity of the temple is
Shiva's temples
The main temple has a spacious courtyard, and followed by a row of twelve identical Shiva temples located on the riverfront.[5]
built facing the east in the typical ‘Aat Chala’ Bengal architecture, they are built on either side of the ghat on the Hoogly river. To the North east of the Temple Complex is the Vishnu Temple or the Radha Kanta’s Temple. A flight of steps lead to the columned verandah and into the temple where a silver throne rests with a 21 and half inches idol of Lord Krishna and 16 inches idol of Radha.
Radha Krishna temple
Ramakrishna's room
A full-length marble statue of Ramkrishna has been installed in the corner room facing the Ganga on the western side of the temple. Ramkrishna stayed in this room for more than 16 years.[6]
Nahabat or musical towers
Sarada Devi stayed at one of the Nahabats.[7]
Further reading
- [ The chapter about Dakshineswar Kali Temple in Ramakrishna Kathamritam] Sri-Sri-Ramakrisna-kathamrta.
See also
Notes
- ^ Tesorio (2008-10-18). "Travel: Kolkata Surprise". MySinchew. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ a b Mehrotra 2008 p.11
- ^ a b c Dutta 2003, p. 104
- ^ "A diamond in the rough". The Sydney Morning Herald. October 14, 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ Isherwood 1987, p. 102
- ^ Chowdhury, Raja (October 27, 2009). "Rack Of Reads". Kolkota Mirror. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- ISBN 9781594731792.
References
- Dutta, Krishna (2003), Calcutta: a cultural and literary history (illustrated ed.), Signal Books, p. 255, ISBN 9781902669595
- Harding, Elizabeth U. (1998), Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 8120814509
- ISBN 978-0143063711
- Nikhilananda, Swami (1942), "Introduction", The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai, ISBN 9788171209828
- Prabhananda, Swami (October 2003), "The Kali Temple at Dakshineswar and Sri Ramakrishna", Vedanta Kesari
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Sen, Amiya P. (2001), Three essays on Sri Ramakrishna and his times, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
- Sen, Amiya P. (June 2006), "Sri Ramakrishna, the Kathamrita and the Calcutta middle classes: an old problematic revisited", Postcolonial Studies, 9 (2): 165–177, )
- Isherwood, Christopher (1987), The wishing tree: Christopher Isherwood on mystical religion, Vedanta Press, ISBN 9780062504029
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