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MANDAR HILL |
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| Near Papaharini
tank at the foot of the hill there are a number of ruined temples said to have been
destroyed by Kala Pahar. Of the three routes, which lead from the Papaharini tank to the
top of the hill, the path a little to the east is much used. On this path stairs have been
cut out of the stone. The legend is that these stairs had been cut at the instance of King
Ugra Bhairab. A few yards up this path there is a headless idol or an image. It is the
image of either Durga or Kali and it is said that Kala Pahar had beheaded the idol. A
little higher up there is a small idol on a small pillar. This idol is worshipped as the
Sun God. Further up there is another very big idol having three faces and ten hands.
This deity is Mahakal Bhairab. A little higher but in close proximity to Mahakal Bhairab,
there is a small image of Sri Ganesha. Near the latter image, as you go up, there is an
idol of Saraswati, which is about two feet high. Near the idol of Mahakal Bhairab and just
by the side of the stairs, there is a three-line inscription.
Two very thick and remarkably parallel lines run round the bill. It is difficult to
believe that any human hand couldpossibly have drawn them. The lines are at a distance of
about six feet from each other and look as if a motor vehicle with grooved tyres bad
passed over the hill. The story goes that this hill was bound with a serpent and the sea
was churned with it at the time of Samudra Manthar. The steep granite hill hardly offers
any foothold and engineers are of the opinion that it is extremely difficult for any human
agency to make these marks round the -massive hill without modern equipment. |
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