Vibhash Shakti Peeth (Bargabhima)

The story

According to the Shakti Peeth tradition, after King Daksha's yagya Shiv ji wandered in grief carrying the body of Devi Sati. Vishnu ji's Sudarshan chakra then divided the body, and wherever a part or an ornament fell, a Shakti Peeth arose. At Tamluk her left ankle is believed to have fallen. A local legend says that in the time of the Mahabharat, King Tamradhwaj of this land heard of a fisherwoman who brought fish from far away and dipped them in a pond beside a forest temple before taking them to the palace, and they always reached fresh and alive. The king went with her to the pond, found the stone Devi in the forest shrine and set up her worship with honour. Another story, told from the Brahma Purana, says that after the Daksha yagya Shiv ji could not free his hand from Daksha's head; Vishnu ji sent him to Tamralipta, and when he bathed in the pool between the Bargabhima and Vishnu temples, he was set free. Some explain the name as the Devi of the four vargas, the four aims of life: dharma, artha, kama and moksha. About four hundred years ago the poet Mukundaram praised 'Bargabhima of Tamralipta' in his Chandimangal.