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Boar-faced, fierce, uncompromising, she is the Tantric Shakti of Lord Vishnu’s Varaha, the power that lifts the Earth and crushes chaos.

She protects against fear, black magic, and inner weakness.

She grants courage, authority, prosperity, and siddhis.

She rules over speech, discipline, and hidden knowledge, a commander, not a comforter.

At the ancient Barahi Deula, Tantric worship still lives, fish offerings, Khakhara architecture, and rituals untouched by modern dilution.

Maa Barahi reminds us

🔥 Divinity is not always soft

🔥 Power is sacred

🔥 Dharma survives because Shakti is fierce

Standing gracefully on the historic Grand Road (Bada Danda) of Puri, opposite the sacred Jagannath Temple, the Hemantanatha Temple, popularly known as the Patiarani Temple, is a remarkable yet lesser-known heritage shrine of Sri Kshetra. History According to local tradition, Maharani Hemanta Kumari Devi, associated with the former Patiya/Puthia royal estate of Bengal (present-day Bangladesh),…

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