Monday, September 6, 2010

IN THE AUSPICIOUS EVENT OF SANDHI PUJA IN THE YEAR 1752 AD, IN GOBINDAPORE, THERE BORN THE FOUNDER OF THE BHUKAILASH RAJBARI MAHARAJA BAHADUR JAY NARAYAN GHOSAL.

    THA ONLY SON OF KRISHNA CHANDRA GHOSAL , JAY NARAYAN GHOSAL ,DEALT WITH SALT, GOLD AND OTHER PRECIOUS STONES AND MADE A GOOD FORTUNE OUT OF IT. HE THEN SHIFTED TO KHIDDERPORE AND BOUGHT 200 BIGHAS OF LAND . OVER THERE HE BUILT A  NUMBER OF BEAUTIFUL TEMPLES WITH REMARKABLE HINDU ,MUSLIM AND GREEK ARCHITECTURALWORKS DONE ON THEM. HE ALSO BUILT A MASSIVE PALACE IN THIS PLCE AND DIG A POND NAMED SHIVA GANGA…..
         
        IN THE YEAR 1781 ,ON THE TWO BANK OF THIS POND , HE ESTABLISHED TWO SHIV TEMPLES AND PLACED TWO GREAT SHIVA LINGAS IN THEM EACH ABOUT 11 FEET HIGHT MADE OF BLACK KASHTI PATHAR AND NAMED THEM AFTER HIS MOTHER AND FATHER (RAKTAKAMALESHWAR & KRISHNACHANDRESHWAR)
      









 THE NEXT YEAR 1782 MAHARAJA ESTABLISHED HIS KULODEBI MAA PATIT PABONI IN A BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE INSIDE HIS PALACE MADE OF ASHTADHATU . ON THE FOUR SIDES OF THIS TEMPLE THERE ARE FOUR TEMPLES EACH OF MAKAR BAHINI GANGA, PANCHANAN DEV, RAJESHWAR MAHALINGA AND JAY KAAL BHAIRAV.ALL THESE TEMPLES MARK THE BEAUTIFUL MIX OF HINDU, MUSLIM AND GREEK SCULPTURES AND ARE OF GREAT HISTORICAL VALUE.
     


HE ALSO BUILT A LOT OF TEMPLES AND FOUNDED THE JAY NARAYAN COLLEGE IN KASHI ( BENARAS) .
     IN THE YEAR 1781, HE RECEIVED THE TITLE OF “MAHARAJA BAHADUR “ FROM THE THEN EMPEROR OF DELHI. AND WITH THE PRIVILEDGE TO MAINTAIN THREE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED SAWARFS..
     THE KOLKATA MUNICIPAL CORPORTAION DECLARED THE BHUKAILASH RAJBARI AS HERITAGE OF KOLKATA ON 6 TH OF SEPTEMBER 1996.
The only son of Krishna Chandra ghosal , Maharaja Joy Narayan ghosal purchased[more or less] 180 bighas of land in kidderpore area and established his kingdom over there.There inside of his palace he built a beautiful temple endowed with rich hindu , muslim and greek architectural work and founded his kulo devi MAA PATITPABONI DURGA.This was in the year 1782.


Maa durga is made of ashtadhatu ( a combination of eight metals) and has a height of about two and a half feet. Maharaja appointed chandi charan pathak mahashoy as the kulo purohit at that time. Since then till now his desendants are performing such rights in bhulailash rajbari .

At the main entrance of the mandir on four sides there are four temples of four deities namely MAKARBAHINI GANGA , PANCHANAN DEV, RAJRAJESHWARI MAHALINGA, AND JAY KAAL BAHIRAV.

Much later IN 1843A.D. ,Raja Bahadur satya charan ghosal a worthy decendent of maharaja joynarayan ghosal built a temple in such a way that Maa durga in her temple can be seen directly from Maharaja’s temple across the pond and the palace that lies in between.