Bipadtarini Chandibari, Rajpur

Das Road in Rajpur Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas in West Bengal, it is one of the few and most important shrines of Maa Bippatarini in the Indian subcontinent.

Every year, the temple is visited by thousands of devotees from all over Bengal, who come here for her darshan and pray to her to protect them from all kinds of danger.

[7] Baba Dulal saw Maa Bipadtarini not in his dreams but with his open eyes in the disguise of a teenage girl.

The upper left hand holds a kharga, symbolising her anger and punishment for the wrongdoers.

[8] Baba Dulal meditated under a bel gach - bilwo briksha (Aegle marmelos) for 3 consecutive days.

[11] The Brata utsav is also observed after Ratha Yatra and before Ulto Rath on the Tuesday and Saturday every year.

The Bipattarini Chandi Brata is followed by the devotees by eating only vegetarian and sattvic diet on the previous day of puja.

After the person gives puja the next day, he or she breaks the fast by eating the 13 luchi along with 13 sweets and 13 fruits, which were offered to the deity as the prasad.

[14] The number 13 is significant and auspicious in Bipadtarini Puja, contrary to the other houses of beliefs in Hinduism.

The rituals of Maa Bipadtarini puja with 13 essential elements each has also been mentioned in the Markandeya Purana.

Red coloured "dhagas" with 13 knots are tied on the hands of both men and women after they break their fast, as a Maa Bipattarini's symbol to protect them from any danger.

With the sound of dhak and knasha, the priest starts with preaching the vanis, followed by the Sandhya Arati.

The divine grace of the Sandhya Arati is believed by her devotees to be an essential event to observe, even after worshipping the deity.