Today's post let me dedicate it to Maa Biraja of Jajpur, Odisha. This is one of the important Shakti peethas of Odisha. Here Maa is depicted in Mahisamardini Swarup. She has two hands holding the trident killing Mahishasur in one hand and pulling tail of Mahishasur in other hand.
This is the shrine also called Navi Gaya. Because the naval of Gayashur lies here. The other two Trigaya kheshtra's being Peethapuram, Andhrapradesh where pada of Gayashur was there. And Siro Gaya, Bihar where head of Gayashur was there. Inside the temple there is a well, where one is required to put the peenda daan after the rituals of peenda pradan is done. The well is too deep and believed to be connected to Patala.
It is also believed that naval of Maa Sati fell here when Vishnu's chakra cut her body into various pieces. So, it's one of the 51 Shakti peethas.
The most peculiar part of the temple is the numerous self formed Shiva lingas inside its boundary. It's believed to have 1 less than 1 crore Shiva lingas in this Shrine. As per the pandits if it had 1crore Shiva lingas Jagannath would have been here and not in Puri.
I got a chance long back to do a puja for all this Shiva idols in this Shrine. The puja was very lengthy one and almost took the entire day to complete. And this being the place where I spent 3 years of my childhood, I had been to the temple several times with my parents especially for Mahalaya puja and other Shraddha or Peenda pradan.
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