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Baranagar, Murshidabad district, West Bengal · 24.2520°, 88.2432°
An 18-metre lime-and-mortar Shiva temple at Baranagar built in 1755 by Tarasundari, daughter of Rani Bhabani of Natore, with an inverted-lotus dome and a circular corridor around the sanctum. It is an ASI-listed monument, noted for the floral carving on the sanctum's outer wall.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Rani Bhabani is said to have meant to raise 108 temples at Baranagar so that it might rival Varanasi, and to have stopped at 107 for reasons no one has recorded.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Natore Raj
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