Shyama Mai Temple

Temple · Kali, as Shyama Mai · Darbhanga, Bihar

It is the principal Shakta temple of Darbhanga city and a major site for mundan and other sanskars

A temple built in 1933 on the cremation ground of the Darbhanga Raj royal family, holding a large image of the goddess Kali.

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Shakti Yatra: Darbhanga, built over a cremation ground, which is the point of it.
Ramayan Yatra: Darbhanga, the seat of the Mithila kings who kept the story.

Learn Madhubani painting: A wall painting done by women in Mithila for centuries, now a hundred-crore trade

Madhubani painting: Mithila's wall and floor painting, taken onto paper in the 1960s and GI-registered in 2007; the villages still paint.
Sikki grass work: Golden marsh grass coiled into boxes and figures that Mithila brides still carry to their new homes; GI-registered.
Mithila makhana: The fox nut Bihar grows for almost all of India, one of Mithila's three emblems with paan and fish; GI-registered in 2022.
Sama Chakeva: Mithila's festival of brothers and sisters, with clay birds, songs at night and the winter birds arriving.
The Darbhanga Raj museums: Two free museums of the Darbhanga Raj, one of India's richest estates, in the city it built.
Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti: The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.

Ahalya Sthan: This is the place where, in the Ramayana, Ahalya was released from her curse and rose from the stone at...
Kusheshwar Asthan: It is the leading Shaiva shrine of the Darbhanga countryside, called the Baba Dham of Mithila, and...
Manokamna Temple: Devotees come to make wishes (manokamna) before the Hanuman image

A temple built in 1933 on the cremation ground of the Darbhanga Raj royal family, holding a large image of the goddess Kali.

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