Siddhakali Temple

सिद्धकाली मन्दिर चैनपुर संखुवासभा ।

This is the ancient myth mentioned in the Skandapurana about the Siddhakali Temple in Chainpur municipality. Daksha Prajapati was a powerful king of Arya community. Mahadev Anarya was a mighty man of the Kirant community and a well-behaved public figure. When the practice of intercaste marriage between different communities had not started, Mahadev went to ask for Satidevi’s hand as his own Lami with the intention of marrying Daksha Prajapati’s daughter Satidevi, but Daksha Prajapati rejected Mahadev and flatly refused the proposal. Then with the help of Daksha Prajapati’s confidant Vishnu, Mahadev married Sati Devi after bowing down to Daksha Prajapati. But after the hidden differences were revealed, the relationship between the son-in-law and father-in-law became bitter. Sati Devi and Mahadev had a very deep love. Despite her father’s disapproval, Sati Devi understood Mahadev’s ability and ability and respected her husband very much. In the meantime, Daksha Prajapati organized a special yajna in which all the gods and elders were invited. But Mahadev and Sati Devi were not called. After knowing this, Sartadevi became enraged and despite Mahadev’s prohibition, she started quarreling with her father and went alone to the place of sacrifice. Father and daughter had a fight. Daksha Prajapati insulted Mahadev by name for all the guests to hear. Sati Devi felt great humiliation for having betrayed her husband and in a fit of rage, she jumped into the fire pit of the Yagya place and sacrificed her life. Now the incident became more violent. Hearing this news, Mahadeva’s enraged gangs attacked Daksha Prajapati’s yajna place and caused great destruction and defeated Daksha Prajapati and apologized. Despite punishing Daksha Prajapati, Mahadeva was unable to bear the pain of losing his wife and carried Sati Devi’s dead body on his shoulder and began to wander everywhere like a madman. The body of Sati Devi, which Mahadev was carrying on his shoulders, began to rot, and Mahadev, without knowing it, suddenly began to fill the body parts. Wherever the grains of Sati Devi fell, Shaktipeeths emerged one by one. During this time, when Mahadev arrived at Chainpur (Chandrapur at that time), Sati Devi’s right eye fell here and Siddhakali Devi and Prakasheshwar Mahadev were born. Patya, which looks like an eye kept in the temple of Siddhakali, is the same eye of Sati Devi who is worshiped as Siddhakali today.

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