Bihar's Sun Temple is the center of faith for foreign tourists ...
Aurangabad In the Aurangabad district of Bihar, the historic Tretayugin Westward Surya Temple situated in Dev, is well known and renowned for its artistic splendor, has been the center of untiring faith of the indigenous and foreign tourists, devotees and the eloquences for centuries.
Due to unprecedented architectural art, craft, artistic grandeur and religious importance of this temple, this legend is famous for its popularity that it has been constructed by Devashelli Lord Vishwakarma with his own hands. Dev-based Lord Bhaskar's huge temple is the center of attraction for devotees, scientists, sculptors, smugglers and people from centuries due to its amazing beauty and crafts. The exquisitely beautiful piece of black and brown stones is the craft of the Jagannath temple in Puri, Orissa. The same is similar to that of the ancient Sun Temple.
In relation to the construction of the temple, written in Brahli script outside and written in Sanskrit, a verse has been established, according to which 12 million 16 thousand years after the passing of the Treta era, the district priest Pururwa All started constructing the Goddess Surya temple. The inscription reveals that in the year 2017, a million fifty thousand seventeen years of the construction period of this mythological temple have been completed.
The carved stone statues of the sun from seven chariots in the temple of God are present in the form of all three forms- Udayachal - Prata Sun, Medhaal - Madhya Sun and Astachal - Sun. Dev's temple is the only sun temple in the whole country which is not oriented towards the west but is oriented towards the west. About one hundred feet high, this Sun Temple is a wonderful example of architecture and architecture. This temple built by adding rectangular, square, semicircular, spherical, triangular etc. cut stone cut in many forms and shapes, without the use of cement or lime, is very attractive and awkward.
Many legends are famous in relation to the construction of this temple on the basis of the history of the temple, which clearly shows that the temple is very old, but there is still a misleading situation in relation to its construction. The debate between historians and archaeologists about the issue of construction has not yielded concrete results in this regard.
According to the most publicized public from Surya Purana, Alla was a king, who was suffering from the white leprosy of a sage. They once lost a trail after reaching the forest in Dev's forest. The roar of the hungry-thirsty king saw a small lake, on which they drank water and drank water in Anjuri. In order to drink water, they were amazed to see that the places where the water touched on their bodies kept on staining of white leprosy. This delighted and amazed King did not care about his clothes, lay down in the dirty water of the lake and with this his white leprosy went full. Seeing the amazing changes in his body, King Ela decided to rest the night in this forest province and in the night the king dreamed that the image of Lord Bhaskar was buried in the same lake. He received instructions in the dream of removing the statue and building the temple there.
It is said that according to this directive, King Alle took out the Dhabi statue from the lake and made it to the temple and constructed the sun cistern, but despite the fact that the temple remained in existence, that idol is not known to this day. The present idol that is present is ancient, but it seems as if it was later established. The sculptures in the temple premises are in fragmentary and dilapidated condition.
A story about the construction of the temple is also prevalent that it was constructed by Devasilpi Lord Vishwakarma with his own hands in a single night and it is said that such a beautiful temple cannot be made of any ordinary craft. Its black stone carvings are wonderful and wherever in the country there is the Sun Temple, their mouth is towards the east, but this is the only temple which can not anoint the sunlight of sunlight in the sun temple, and the sunlight of the non-temporal sun To anoint.
The devotees of Chhattisgarh women from different districts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bengal, Uttaranchal and Bihar, who came to celebrate Kartik Chhath in the famous solar pilgrimage place, took a special bath in holy sunkund located here and in the historic Tretayugin west-facing Surya temple The worship of the sun god. Today, the four-day Kartik Chhath Mela, started in Dev, has started with the bathy food.
At the same time, on the day of bathing, the sixth generation of holy women took holy bath in the rivers, ponds, and lakes located in different areas of the district and purified the utensils used during the fast. After the bathing, the piglets used to prepare the food of the pumpkin-rice with purity of water and river water and fed it to their families in the form of prasad.
It is worth mentioning that during the Kartik Chet fast, there is a specific religious and spiritual significance of performing the pilgrimage to the Sun God. It is said that here every year during Chaitra fast in Kartik and Chaitra month, the rites and devotees have the realization of the presence of Lord Surya.