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কালীঘাট মন্দির
Kolkata, West Bengal · 22.5204°, 88.3420°
Kolkata's tutelary shrine and one of the most intense of the 51 Shakti Peethas — where the toes of Sati's right foot fell. The touchstone image with three huge eyes and golden tongue is served amid a crush of devotion unbroken for centuries; the city's very name may derive from Kalighat.
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.
When Vishnu's chakra cut the corpse of Sati that a grief-mad Shiva carried, her body sanctified the land wherever it fell — at Kalighat her toes; a beam of light over the Adi Ganga led a devotee to the stone, found in the shape of a human toe.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-26 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Colonial-era Bengal
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