Nayagarh
Nayagarh (नयागढ़) is a town and district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of Nayagarh district.
Location
Nayagarh is located at 20.13°N 85.1°E. It has an average elevation of 178 metres (583 feet). This town has Rukhi mountain to the south and Balaram mountain to the north. These mountains mitigated the effects of the 1999 Odisha cyclone on Nayagarh. New Jagannath Sadak connects Nayagarh with the holy city of Puri district.
Administrative division
Tahsils in Nayagarh district:
Jat clans
Vilages in Nayagarh tahsil
Adabandha, Adechera, Anandapalli, Aswathapara, Baghera, Balikudia, Banamalipur, Barabati, Baradwar, Barapalla, Barapalli, Baulasahi, Belabani, Bhutadi, Bijipur, Binjhagiri, Biradisahi, Bodapada, Brajaballabhapur, Brundabanpur, Chandibasta, Chandrasekharpur, Chinara, Damodarpur, Dengeragadia, Deuliamrutamahani, Dhabalei, Dharmabrundabanpur , Dianapada, Dimiripatna, Durgaprasad, Gabadihi, Gamei, Ghantasahi, Godiali, Gopalpur, Govindpur, Guptapalli, Harekrishnapur, Hariharpur, Haripur, Hatadwar, Hinjalagadia, Jadupur, Jamusahi, Janhipada, Jautakpatna, Jayamangalprasad , Jayapur , Jemadeipur, K Ladukeswarpur , Kadua, Kalahandi, Kanchanpalli, Kantabania, Kautara, Kesharpur, Kestapada, Khairapati, Khamarisahi, Kharagprasad, Khedabarana, Khedapada, Khetriharpur, Kodiakahania Nuasahi, Kodikhania , Kodikhonia, Koska, Krushnaprasad, Ladukeswarpur, Lausena, Lekhanpur, Mahendrapur, Malatipur, Manapur, Mandhatapur, Mangarajpur, Mankpalli, Melamba, Mrutunjaypur, Muktapur, Muthagadia, Nachhipur, Nagamunduli, Nagapur, Nandapur, Narasinghprasad, Natugan, Palagunthuni, Pallisasan, Patachandiprasad, Patharakata, Pathuriapada, Phasipada, Piasalia, Pratapprasad, Purusottampur, Raghunathprasad, Rasola, Routarapur, Sajanapada, Saluni, Sanapandsura, Sankhei, Sarapada, Shyamghanpur, Sipahi Asuradhipa, Subalya, Sukalgadia, Sunalati, Tangipatna, Tentualiapalli, Tipura, Tulasipur, Udaypur,
History
The history of the foundation of Nayagarh State in the thirteenth century is an important chapter in the political history of Odisha. Suryamani of Baghela dynasty came to Puri on a pilgrimage from "Rewa" of Madhya Pradesh and established his kingdom at Nayagarh. On the way to Puri, both Suryamani and his brother Chandramani took rest at night at Gunanati. The area was full of tigers and at night a tiger attacked him. Both the brothers fought the tiger and killed it. The local people praised the brave brothers and elected Suryamani as their leader. Suryamani gradually built his fort at Gunanati and married a Mali (a cast known as worshiper of Lord Shiv) girl. After the death of his first wife, he again married a Kshatriya girl. From there, he then attacked Haripur and Ralaba. While sleeping, a tiger attacked him at Ralaba; he again fought and killed it. At that moment, he saw a lady with an empty pot passed by to fetch water. Astonishingly, she returned with a little boy. Immediately, Suryamani obstructed the way of that lady and wanted to know about the mystery. The lady told she was Bouri Thakurani (a local worshiped goddess) and the tiger that the king killed was the boy. She advised Suryamani to kill her and worship her as his deity. From that date, Suryamani worshiped "Bauri Thakurani" at Ralaba and built his fort there and adopted Tiger Head as a state symbol.
Ninth king of this dynasty "Baghel Singh" (1480–1510) came on a hunting to a place in between Rukshi and Balaram mountains and saw a wonderful sight that a rabbit pressed down a dog there. After seeing this valourous act by the prey (rabbit) on the predator, he selected and shifted his capital to this place. As per his name, Nayagarh is also known as "Baghua Nayagarh" (valourous Nayagarh). The place where such an event occurred is now known as "KukurTasara" ('kukur' means 'dog' and 'tasara' means a large piece of stone in Odia, where the pressing of the dog by the rabbit had occurred and hence the name).
12th King of Nayagarh was Raghunath Sing (1565–1595) who was highly powerful. During this time, Muslims had already captured Odisha and the atmosphere of the coastal Odisha was fully indiscipline. The last independent king Mukunda Dev (1565) was defeated in Gohritikira and died. By taking the advantages of the political situations of coastal Odisha, Raghunath Singh attacked Ranapur and captured Odagaon, Sarankul and Baunsiapara area from Ranapur estate and dispossessed Nayagarh-Daspalla border area from the King of Boudh and Sunamuhin area of Odgaon from the King of Ghumusar. He also captured a portion from Banpur. Before death, Ragunath Singh divided his estate between his three sons. Harihar Singh was in possession of Nayagarh and Jadunath Singh got four Khandagrams (large area of land) which was known as Khandapada later. Gadadhar Singh was the son of Harihar Singh. When he was engaged in a fight with Ranpur estate, the king of Ghumusar attacked Nayagarh. Pindik Patsahani of village Sunalati with 150 soldiers fought the great army of Ghumusar and defeated him. But, in subsequent war, he was captured by the enemy and sacrificed his life. Gadadhar Sing's daughter married the great poet Upendra Bhanja of Ghumusar who settled at Malisahi of Nayagarh estate after marriage. When British captured Odisha, Binayak Singh Mandhata was the King of Nayagarh and the great Jadumani Mahapatra was his court poet.
Temples, Tourist, Attractions and Nearby places of Interest
Ladukeswar Temple: This Shiv temple is situated at Sarankul, a small town towards Odagaon Block. Maha Shivaratri is the important festival which is being celebrated every year. People from all parts of Odisha (mainly south Odisha) come to this place during the festival. The deity popularly known as "Ladu Baba" bestows blessing upon everyone. The temple is situated around 100 km from Bhubaneswar on the Nayagrah- Aska Road in Sharankul and 13 km away from Nayagarh town. The city is regarded as the golden merge of Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva). "Bolbam" is a traditional culture here for which people across different parts of Odisha visit the temple from their own towns by walking on barefoot and carrying a stick over their shoulder holding 2 pots of water from their town and finally put in the Ladukeshwar temple on the occasion of Shivaratri. The history of Ladukeshwar temple says that a cowherd used to take a couple of cows to the Bhandar mountain situated on top of Ladukeshwar temple now and one day he noticed that the cow automatically milks over a stone periodically everyday and one day when by mistake the cow put the leg on that stone, blood came out of the stone. To the very surprise, the cowherd told that story to village head and on that night one temple priest saw a dream of god speaking of establishing a temple over there. And the king agreed to it and established the temple. From that day onwards Ladukeshwar temple got established in Sharankul. In front of the temple, one monkey used to come for many days and sit at the exit of temple everyday and never ate anything offered by the public and died after few days, hence one small temple was built just outside the exit in the memory of that loving devoted monkey. The temple is now further restructured with more temples internally with further introduction of "Naba gunjar", Maa laxmi temple, haraparbati temple and floating stone of magical Ramsetu times etc. The history is very old and teaches us the culture in every respect.
Nilamadhab Temple: This temple is situated at Kantilo around 35 km from Nayagarh and 60 km distance from Bhubaneswar. It is believed that lord Jagannath is the secondary form of lord Nilamadhav, who was worshiped by the tribal head Biswabasu. Odogaon Raghunath Temple
This temple is situated at Odagaon around 27 km distance from Nayagarh town. Lord Rama is worshiped there along with lord Laxman and goddess Sita. Dakshinakali Temple
This temple is situated in Nayagarh around 1 km distance from Nayagarh town. Goddess Dakshinakli is the prime deity of Nayagarh. It is said She was taken by a great tantrik of the royal family of Nayagarh king once on his way from Khandpara to Nayagarh. While the royal kin was coming through a mango field at night, the deity appeared before him and since he was a great tantrik, he imprisoned the devi (goddess) and asked her to come with him as an aid till he reaches Nayagarh as he was travelling alone. Goddess Dakshinakli came with the tantrik, but upon reaching Nayagarh when he asked Her now She can go, the goddess replied him as you have made me come here now give me shelter and I would not go back and even cursed him to be childless as She was the mother goddess and a son should not have done this even if he has great magical power. Since then the temple for Dakshin Kali was built on and the goddess has been worshipped.
Balabhadrapur Jagannath Temple: This temple is situated at Balabhadrapur village under Malishahi police station.
This Shiv temple is situated at Dihagaon, a small village 5 km distance from Daspalla Town towards Gania Block. This is the only shiv temple in the Dashapalla area whose "Shiv Ling is a patali shiv ling (came from netherworld, i.e. deep earth, by itself)" and has not been established by human beings. This Shiva Ling was discovered by a tribal couple while they were searching for their habitats.Kartik Poornima is the main festival of Dihagaon Jaleswar Temple followed by Maha Shivaratri, Dola Purnima and Sitala Sasthi. Tourist, Attractions and Nearby places of Interest
Kotagada Gumpha, Rajsunakhala: Lord Mahaveer on the top of the mountain. Kartika Purnima is a festival run near the Gumpha. It is 4 kilometers away from Rajsunakhala & 9 kilometers from Ranpur.
Gokulananda Tourism Center: Gokulananda Tourism Center is a tourist attraction in Nayagarh district, which is situated on the bank of the river Mahanadi in Sidhamula village. There is a cottage and deer park installed near this picnic spot, and accommodation in a cottage.
Satkosia Gorge: It is the deepest river gorge of Odisha in the river Mahanadi. Its length is about 16 km in between Angul and Dashapalla boundary. Gharial crocodile and many reptiles, aquatic birds and animals are found here. Satakosia Wildlife Sanctuary
The Satakosia wildlife sanctuary is a tiger reserve. It attracts the nature lovers to experience the Flora and Fauna of Dashapalla amidst deep dense forest with trees, herbs and creepers. Tiger, elephant, deer, spotted deer, bison, hare, jackal, wolf, leopard, peacock, parrot, maina, etc., are common.
Kuanaria Dam: A medium Irrigation Project has been built on the river Kuanaria just 7 km away from Dashapalla town. It is the largest river dam of Nayagarh district and a very good picnic spot with a deer park. Irrigation I.B., Wildlife I.B. and RWSS I.B. are here for short stay of the visitors.
Budhabudhiani Dam: Budhabudhiani Dam 10 km from Odagaon town is a picnic place of Nayagarh District.
Mahaveer Khol: Mahaveer Khol, a small hill at the north of Dashapalla is believed to be the original place of God Mahaveer. Swapna Mahaveer is being worshipped here since 1983. It is a fine religious place as well as a very good spot for picnic and for visit. A 3-day-long Jajna is held here every year during Bisub Sankranti where thousands of people gather.
Bhimara: It is a fine place for rock trekking. Generally, people gather here in the month of Kartik for a visit. It is believed that Bhim the 2nd Pandav was here for some days. So the grand rock bears the footprints of Bhim and named as Bhimara.
नयागढ़ जिला ओडिशा
नयागढ़ जिला ओडिशा का एक जिला है। नयागढ़ जिला पश्चिम में पहाड़ी श्रृंखलाओं में स्थित है। यह जिला समुद्र तल से अधिक ऊंचाई पर और बाढ़ के स्तर से ऊपर है। महानदी नदी जिले की पूर्वी सीमा में बहती है।
नयागढ़ जिले का इतिहास: नयागढ़ जिले का इतिहास तेरहवीं शताब्दी के आसपास और ओडिशा के राजनीतिक इतिहास में एक महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा माना जाता है। बघेला वंश के राजा सूर्यमणि मध्य प्रदेश से तीर्थ यात्रा पर पुरी आए और नयागढ़ में अपना राज्य स्थापित किया। नयागढ़ जिले में पूर्व राज्यों रानपुर, नयागढ़, खंडपारा और दासपल्ला के चार गर्जत राज्य शामिल हैं। नयागढ़ जिले ने अपने पूर्व राज्यों नयागढ़, खंडपारा, दासपल्ला और रणपुर के साथ भारत के स्वतंत्रता संग्राम में एक प्रमुख भूमिका निभाई।
नयागढ़ जिले का भूगोल: नयागढ़ जिले के भूगोल में भूमि का एक पहाड़ी हिस्सा शामिल है। जिले में कई नदियां बहती हैं। महानदी इस जिले में बहती है। महानदी की एक सहायक नदी ब्रुटंगा, फूलबनी और भंजनगर के पहाड़ी क्षेत्रों से निकलती है और महानदी नदी में बड़ी मात्रा में पानी ले जाती है। कुसुमी नदी गंजम जिले के भंजनगर उप-मंडल में पंचबटी से निकलती है। नयागढ़ जिले में बहने वाली अन्य नदियों में बुद्धबुधियानी, कुआंरिया और दाहुका नदियाँ शामिल हैं जहाँ मध्यम सिंचाई परियोजनाओं का निर्माण किया गया है। नयागढ़ जिले की जलवायु चरम प्रकार की है और यह गर्मी के मौसम में बहुत गर्म होती है।
नयागढ़ जिले की संस्कृति: नयागढ़ जिले की संस्कृति विषम विश्वासों की एक मिश्रित संस्कृति है। नयागढ़ जिले की संस्कृति में कई स्वदेशी त्योहार शामिल हैं जैसे दसपल्ला में रावणपोडी, दखिनाकली की पाना संक्रांति, सारनकुल में शिवरात्रि, कण्टिलो में माघ सप्तमी (कांतिलो मेला), ओडगांव में रामनवमी और नयागढ़, खंडपारा, दासपल्ला और राणापुर में कार महोत्सव। कलसी नृत्य, डिंडा धंगेड़ी नृत्य, मटिया नृत्य, पाइका नृत्य, धुदुकी नाचा, दुआरी नृत्य और डंडा नाचा नयागढ़ जिले के कुछ लोकप्रिय लोक नृत्य हैं।
नयागढ़ जिले में पर्यटन: नयागढ़ जिले में पर्यटन में ऐतिहासिक और धार्मिक महत्व वाले कई प्रसिद्ध स्थलों का दौरा शामिल है। नयागढ़ जिले मेंकुछ लोकप्रिय स्थानों में सरनकुल, ओडागांव, दुतीकेश्वर, कण्टिलो, दासपल्ला, राणपुर, असुरकुमारी, बरमूल, सातोकासिया गोर्ज अभयारण्य, सीतलपानी, बैसिपल्ली अभयारण्य, ताराबालो और उदयपुर पुस्तकालय शामिल हैं। जीवों की विविध प्रजातियाँ भी यहाँ देखी जा सकती हैं। इस जिले के विभिन्न पर्यटन स्थलों को देखने के लिए दूर-दूर से लोग आते हैं। इसके अलावा, जिले में कई शैव तीर्थ हैं।