51 Shaktipeeth Mythology and Description

Although 108 shaktipeeths are mentioned in Devi Bhagwat and 72 shaktipeeths are mentioned in Devi Gita, 52 shaktipeeths are mentioned in Tantrachudamani. Of course only 51 Shaktipeeths have been discussed in Devi Purana. Some of these 51 Shaktipeeths are also abroad and are revered by worship.

It is to be known that out of these 51 Shaktipeeths, after the partition of India, 5 became even less and 42 Shakti Peeths are left in today's India. 1 Shaktipeeth went to Pakistan and 4 to Bangladesh. Of the remaining 4 Peethas, 1 is in Sri Lanka, 1 is in Tibet and 2 is in Nepal.
                                                                  Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu Shakti Rupen Sasmitha Namah Tasay Namah Tasay Namah Tasay Namo Namah||

The story in the context of these 51 Shaktipeeths located in the country and abroad is that as the daughter of King Prajapati Daksha, Mata Jagadambika was born as Sati and married Lord Shiva. Once a group of sages were performing a yajna. All the deities were invited to the Yagya. When King Daksha came, everyone stood up but Lord Shiva did not stand up. Lord Shiva was the son-in-law of Daksha. Seeing this, King Daksha became very angry. Daksha always looked at his son-in-law Shiva with contempt. King Prajapati Daksha, the father of Sati, organized a yagya named 'Brihaspati Sarva / Brihasani' at Kankhal (Haridwar). Brahma, Vishnu, Indra and other gods and goddesses were invited to that yagya, but deliberately did not invite Lord Shiva, the husband of Sati, to attend this yagya. Due to which Lord Shiva did not participate in this Yagya. Sati came to know from Narada that a yagya is being held at her father's place but she has not been invited. Knowing this, she got angry. Narada advised them that there was no need to invite the father to go to his place. When Sati started going to her father's house, Lord Shiva refused. But Sati insisted on not being called by her father and stopped by Shankarji and went to attend the yagya. At the sacrificial site, Sati asked her father Daksha the reason for not inviting Shankar and expressed fierce opposition to the father. On this Daksha started talking derogatory about Lord Shankar in front of Sati. Sati, who was suffering from this humiliation, could not bear all this and sacrificed her life by jumping into the yagya-fire pit. When Lord Shankar came to know about this accident, his third eye opened in anger. There was a catastrophe-like outcry everywhere. On the orders of Lord Shankar, Veerabhadra beheaded Daksha and punished the other gods for listening to Shiva's condemnation and all the gods and sages fled from the place of sacrifice, frightened by the furious wrath of his ganas. Then Lord Shiva took out the body of Sati from the Yagyakund in the separation of Sati and lifted the body of Sati on the shoulder and started traveling on the whole earth in grief. Bhagwati Sati appeared to Shiva in space and told him that wherever the fragments of his body would fall apart, there would be the rise of the Mahashaktipeeth. Taking the dead body of Sati, Shiva while roaming on the earth also started performing the Tandava dance, due to which the situation of catastrophe started arising on the earth. Seeing the three worlds including the earth distraught and on the persuasion of the gods, Lord Vishnu broke the body of Sati into pieces with the Sudarshan Chakra and dropped it on the earth. Whenever Shiva slammed his feet in a dance posture, Vishnu would cut off any part of the body with his chakra and drop its pieces on the earth. According to 'Tantra-Chudamani', in this way, wherever the pieces of Sati's body, the clothes or ornaments worn by it fell, there-there Shaktipeeth came into existence. In this way, the Shaktipeeths of the mother were built in a total of 51 places. In the next life, Sati took birth as Parvati in the house of the Himavan king and received Karshiva as her husband again with severe penance.

Description of Shaktipeeths 

Kirit Katyayani Shaktipeeth: Kirit Shaktipeeth is located on Lalbagh Kot on the banks of Hooghly river in West Bengal, where the kirit i.e. Shirabhushan or crown of Mother Sati fell. The power here is Vimala or Bhuvaneshwari and Bhairav ​​Samvart.

Katyayani Shaktipeeth Katyayani Vrindavan Shaktipeeth is located in Bhuteshwar of Vrindavan, Mathura where the hair of Sati had fallen. The Shakti Devi here is Katyayani.

Karveer Shaktipeeth This Shaktipeeth is located in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, where Mother's Trinity had fallen. The power here is Mahishasuramadini and Bhairav ​​is angry. Mahalakshmi's personal abode is believed to be here.

Shri Parvat Shaktipeeth: There is a difference of opinion among scholars regarding this Shaktipeeth, some scholars believe that the origin of this Peeth is Ladakh, while some believe that it is in Sylhet, Assam, where the Dakshin Talpa of Mother Sati fell. The power here is Shri Sundari and Bhairav ​​Sundaranand.

Vishalakshi Shaktipeeth is located at Meerghat in Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, where the gems of Mother Sati's right ear fell. The power here is Vishalakshi and Bhairav ​​Kaal Bhairav.

Godavari Beach Shaktipeeth: This Shaktipeeth is located on the Godavari bank in Kabbur, Andhra Pradesh, where the mother's left cupola had fallen. The power here is Vishweshwari or Rukmani and Bhairav ​​Dandapani.

Shuchindram Shaktipeeth, Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari is situated at the Thrisagar confluence site.

Shri Parvat Shaktipeeth: There is a difference of opinion among scholars regarding this Shaktipeeth, some scholars believe that the origin of this Peeth is Ladakh, while some believe that it is in Sylhet, Assam, where the Dakshin Talpa of Mother Sati fell. The power here is Shri Sundari and Bhairav ​​Sundaranand.

Vishalakshi Shaktipeeth is located at Meerghat in Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, where the gems of Mother Sati's right ear fell. The power here is Vishalakshi and Bhairav ​​Kaal Bhairav.

Godavari Beach Shaktipeeth: This Shaktipeeth is located on the Godavari bank in Kabbur, Andhra Pradesh, where the mother's left cupola had fallen. The power here is Vishweshwari or Rukmani and Bhairav ​​Dandapani.

Shuchindram Shaktipeeth, Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari is sit…

Utkal Shaktipeeth is believed to be in Puri and Yajpur in Orissa where the mother's navel fell. The Shaktis here are Vimala and Bhairav ​​Jagannath Purushottam.

Kanchi Shaktipeeth, located in Kanchivaram, Tamil Nadu, is the place where the mother's skeleton fell. The power here is Devgarbha and Bhairav ​​Ruru.

Kalamadhva Shaktipeeth: No definite place is known about this Shaktipeeth. But, the mother's left buttock had fallen here. The power here is Kali and Bhairav ​​is Asitang.

Shon Shaktipeeth Narmada temple of Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh is Shon Shaktipeeth. Here the south buttocks of the mother had fallen. Another belief is that the Tarachandi temple of Sasaram in Bihar is the Shona Neutra Shaktipeeth. It is believed that the right eye of Sati fell here. The power here is Narmada or Shonakshi and Bhairav ​​Bhadrasen.

Kamrup Kamakhya Shaktipeeth Kamagiriasam This Shaktipeeth is located on the Kamagiri mountain of Guwahati, where the mother's vagina fell. The power here is Kamakhya and Bhairav ​​Umananda.

Jayanti Shaktipeeth: Jayanti Shaktipeeth is located on the Jaintia hill in Meghalaya, where the mother's left thigh had fallen. The Shakti Jayanti and Bhairav ​​Kramdishwar are here.

Magadha Shaktipeeth, located in Patna, the capital of Bihar, is considered to be the only Shaktipeeth where the right thigh of the mother fell. The Shaktis here are Sarvanandkari and Bhairav ​​Vyomkesh.

Tristota Shaktipeeth: Tristota Shaktipeeth is located on the Teesta river in the Shalwadi village of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, where the mother's left foot fell. The power here is Bhramari and Bhairav ​​God.

Tripura Sundari Shaktitripuri Peeth is located in Radha Kishore village of Tripura, Tripura Sundari Shaktipeeth, where the mother's right foot had fallen. The power here is Tripura Sundari and Bhairav ​​Tripurash.

Vibhash Shaktipeeth is located in Tamrluk village of Midnapore, West Bengal, where the mother's left ankle fell. The Shaktis here are Kapalini, Bhimrupa and Bhairav ​​Sarvananda.

Devikup Peeth Kurukshetra (Shaktipeeth) Kurukshetra Shaktipeeth is situated near Dwaipayan Sarovar near Kurukshetra Junction, Haryana, which is recognized as Sridevikup (Bhadrakali Peeth). The right feet of the mother (Gulppaddha) fell. Here Shakti is Savitri and Bhairav ​​Sthanu. .

Yugadya Shaktipeeth (Kshirgram Shaktipeeth) is located in Kshirgram of Bardman district of West Bengal, where the thumb of the right foot of Sati fell.

Virat's Ambika Shaktipeeth is located in Vairatgram, Pink City of Jaipur, Rajasthan, where the 'right toes' of Sati had fallen. The power here is Ambika and Bhairav ​​Amrit.

Kali Shaktipeeth: This Shaktipeeth, famous in the name of Kali Mandir in Kalighat, West Bengal, Kolkata, where 4 other fingers had fallen except the toe of the right foot of the mother. The Shaktis here are Kalika and Bhairav ​​Nakulesh.

Manas Shaktipeeth: Manas Shaktipeeth is located on the banks of Mansarovar in Tibet, where the right palm of the mother fell. The Dakshayani and Bhairav ​​of the Shakti here are immortal.

Lanka Shaktipeeth: Lanka Shaktipeeth is located in Sri Lanka, where the mother's Nupur fell. The power here is Indrakshi and Bhairav ​​is Rakshaseshwar. But, it is not known at which place of Sri Lanka where they had fallen.

Gandaki Shaktipeeth: Gandaki Shaktipeeth is situated at the origin of river Gandaki in Nepal, where the Dakshina Gand (Kapole) of Sati fell. Here Shakti is 'Gandaki' and Bhairav ​​is 'Chakrapani'.

Guhyeshwari Shaktipeeth Located near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is Guhyeshwari Shaktipeeth, where both the Janu (knees) of Mother Sati had fallen. The power here is 'Mahamaya' and Bhairav ​​is 'Kapal'.

Hinglaj Shaktipeeth Mata Hinglaj Shaktipeeth is located in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, where the mother's Brahmarandhra fell.

Sugandha Shaktipeeth, located on the banks of Sugandha River in Khulna, Bangladesh, is the Shaktipeeth of Ugratara Devi, where the mother's nostrils fell. The deity here is Sunanda and Bhairav ​​is Tryambak.

Kartoyaghat Shaktipeeth is situated on the banks of Kartoya river in Begada, Bhawanipur, Bangladesh, where the mother's left talpa fell. Here Devi resides in the form of Aparna and Shiva in the form of Vaman Bhairav.

Chattal Shaktipeeth Bhavani Shaktipeeth of Chattal is located in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where the right arm of the mother fell. Here Shakti Bhavani and Bhairav ​​are Chandrashekhar.

Yashoreshwari Shaktipeeth is located in Jessore Khulna, Bangladesh, where the mother's left palm fell. Here are Shakti Yashoreshwari and Bhairav ​​Chandra.