About Kalighat Kali Temple

Kalighat was a Ghat consecrated to Kali on the old course of the Hooghly waterway in the city of Calcutta. The name Calcutta is said to have been gotten from the word Kalighat. The waterway over some undefined time frame has moved far from the temple. The templeis presently on the banks of a little channel called Adi Ganga which associates with the Hoogly. The Adi Ganga was the first course of the stream Hoogly. Subsequently the name Adi (unique) Ganga.

The Kalighat temple in its present frame is just around 200 years of age, despite the fact that it has been alluded to in Mansar Bhasan formed in the fifteenth century, and in Kavi Kankan Chandi of the seventeenth century. Specify of the Kali temple is additionally found in Lalmohon Bidyanidhis' 'Sambanda Nirnoy".Just two sorts of coins of Chandragupta II, who consolidated Vanga in the Gupta Domain, are known from Bengal. His Bowman sort coins, which turned into the most prominent kind of coinage with the Gupta rulers after Kumaragupta I, have been found in Kalighat. This is confirmation of the artifact of the place. 

The picture of Kali in this temple is one of a kind. It doesn't take after the example of other Kali pictures in Bengal. The present icon of touchstone was made by two holy people - Atmaram Brahmachari and Brahmananda Giri. By and by, the three immense eyes, long projecting tongue made of gold and four hands, which all are made of gold as well. Two of these hands holding a scimitar and a separated leader of the asura lord 'Shumbha'. The scimitar means Divine Information and the asura (or, human) head connotes human Conscience which must be killed by Divine Learning with a specific end goal to accomplish Moksha. The other two hands are in the abhaya and varada mudras or endowments, which implies her started lovers (or anybody worshiping her with a genuine heart) will be spared as she will direct them here and from this point forward.