Dhanvantari Kali Bari, the temple which is worshiped for healing

There are countless Kalikshetras spread across Bengal, there is no end to legends surrounding each temple. Locals also believe that visiting any temple cures diseases. I will talk about one such temple in today's kali talk. The temple is located in South 24 Parganas, at Majilpur in South 24 Parganas. Take any train from Sealdah South Branch bound for Jayanagar, get down at platform no. 1 of Jayanagar-Mojilpur station and walk for five minutes. The reason for the name Dhanvantari Temple is that this 400-year-old temple is said to offer medicines obtained from the dream of the goddess. 

Devotees who are sick and suffering from diseases get cured. Devotees believe that many terrible diseases, from gas and heartburn, can be cured by taking the medicine found in the dream of the goddess. That is why the name of the goddess is Dhanvantari. He heals diseases like Vaidyaraja Dhanvantari of heaven. Devotees call the goddess as Dhanvantari. In the 16th-17th centuries, the areas along the banks of the Adi Ganga were deeply forested and quiet. As a result, Tantra monks built energy cultivation fields in those places away from the locality. Today's Dhanvantari Kali Bari is one such place of worship.

About the eighteenth century, in the early part of the eighteenth century, the original Ganges stream to the Gangesagar used to flow over the present Mojilpur village. Among the two villages of Jayanagar-Mojilpur, the village of Jayanagar, the seat of Moya, is very ancient. To the east of Jayanagar lies Mojilpur village, this village is younger than Jayanagar. It did not exist in ancient times, when Bhagirathi i.e. Adi Ganga flowed there. It is believed that the place was created by the Adiganga river and named Majilpur. Majilpur is also known as Padmapukur. Once upon a time there were cremation grounds at various places on the banks of Adiganga. 

Where the Dhanvantari Kali temple stands today, there was also a crematorium. At that time, a Tantric saint named Bhairbananda used to sit and meditate on Bhagirathi i.e. the ford created in the middle of the Ganges stream, where the Dhanvantari Kali temple of Mojilpur is located today, was the place of worship of Tantric Bhairbananda. One day he got a dream from the goddess, the goddess told him that he was lying in the nearby Padma pond, and the goddess ordered him to be rescued and worshiped. Searching the pond, the tantrik found a black stone black idol from a corner of the pond. As per his mother's orders, he started worshiping the idol in a thatched hut. The age of the stone idol is about three hundred years.