Dwarbasini

Dwarbasini ("দ্বারবাসিনী") is a Shakti goddess. She is the form of goddess Durga. The Dwarbasini temple is situated on the bank of Dwarka River and at the end of Deucha-Boliharpur road.[1] Here Dwarka River is flowing twords north, and according to tantra Dwarbasini is a shaktipith.

Etymology

From a folk story we get the name of 'Raja Umacharan Roy ( Umeshcharan Sharma ) ', grandson of first priest Triloke Sharma. He was a great devotee of the goddess 'Dwarbasini' ani had died by Santhals at Santhal rebellion.[2] He had donated lands to allocate flowers, woods, rices, sweets, milk etc at the village chondrapur(চন্দ্রপুর)[3]

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  dwarbasini stone idol
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  Vairob of dwarbasini

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Origins

Goddess Dwarbasini is a stone idol with no image. She here is goddess Durga with Laxmi, Saraswati, Kartik, and Ganesha. This temple was built near about 30 years ago. Before this temple was made, Dwarbasini was covered with the bamboo umbrella, made by Santhals.[4]

History

Dwarbasini is a 'sini' goddess like palashbasini, duarsini etc. Probably she was worshiped by Santhals, and pahria Mals.[5]

Etymology

From a folk story we have the name of 'Raja Umacharan Roy'. He was a great devotee of goddess 'Dwarbasini'. He had no son. So he had adopted a son who was the forefather of the 'Bondopadhaya' priest family. At the time of The santhal Rebellion Umacharan had killed by santhals.[6]

References

1. "DWARBASINI TEMPLE". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
2. Dwarbasini by Purnachandra Banerjee, ISBN 978-61-923521-9-0 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN.
3. folk story
4. Subrata Majumdar, maternal relation with Dwarbasini priest family
5. birbhumer katha
6. folk story and 'kursinama' of priest family