Devi Patan
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Devi Patan (देवीपाटन) is a site of a famous temple situated in Tulsipur of Balrampur district in Uttar Pradesh. It is around 25 Kms from the district headquarters of Balrampur. It is the temple of Ma Pateshwari and goes by the name Devi Patan. The temple is one of the famous 51 Shakti Peethas of Ma Durga.
Devipatan division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Currently (2005), the division consists of districts of: Gonda, Bahraich, Shravasti, and Balarampur. Gonda is headquarters of this division.
Origin
Variants
- Devi Patan/Devipatan (देवीपाटन)
- Devipatana (देवीपाटन) (जिला गौंडा, उ.प्र.) (AS, p.452)
History
Tej Ram Sharma [1] writes that the Nepala valley originally contained a lake called Naga Basa or Kalihrada, in which lived Naga Karkotaka. It was fourteen miles in length and four miles in breadth [2]
The former name of Nepala was Slesmatakavana. [3] The famous temple of Pasupatinatha on the western bank of the Bagmati River, is situated about three miles north west of Kathmandu in the town of Devipatan said to have been founded by Asoka's daughter Carumati. [4] The Saktisangama Tantra describes the country of Nepala as placed between Jaṭesvara and Yogini. [5] Sircar equates Yoginipura with Delhi and Jatesvara with Jalpesvara, the famous Siva of the Jalpaiguri district in North Bengal. [6]
देवीपाटन
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[7] ने लेख किया है ...देवीपाटन (AS, p.452) उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य के गोंडा ज़िले में उत्तर-पूर्वी रेलवे के तुलसीपुर स्टेशन के पास स्थित एक ऐतिहासिक स्थान है। देवीपाटन पाटेश्वरी देवी के मन्दिर के लिए दूर-दूर तक प्रसिद्ध है। वर्तमान मन्दिर अधिक प्राचीन नहीं है, किन्तु यह कहा जाता है कि प्राचीन मन्दिर जो आधुनिक मन्दिर के स्थान पर ही था, विक्रमादित्य के समय में बना था। पाटेश्वरी देवी मन्दिर को मुग़ल बादशाह औरंगज़ेब ने 17वीं शती में तुड़वा दिया था। स्थानीय किंवदंती के अनुसार कुंती के ज्येष्ठ पुत्र कर्ण ने परशुराम से ब्रह्मास्त्र यहीं पर प्राप्त किया था। 'भार्गवोऽपिददौ दिव्यं धनुर्वेदं महात्मने, कर्णाय पुरुषव्याघ्र सुप्रीते नांतरात्मना' महाभारत, कर्णपर्व 34, 157-158
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References
- ↑ Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions, p. 260
- ↑ Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval India by N. L. Dey, p. 140
- ↑ Historical Geography of Ancient India by B. C. Law, p. 113
- ↑ Historical Geography of Ancient India by B. C. Law, pp. 113-14
- ↑ Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India by D. C. Sircar, p. 77
- ↑ Book III, ch. VII. v. 36 : "जटेश्वरं समारभ्य योगिन्यन्तं महेश्वरि। नेपाल देशो देवेशि...।"
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.452