The city of Agartala Eastern India

by Madugundu Krishna    August 05, 2012

 Agartala, the capital of Tripura, is well connected by air with Calcutta. There are a number of daily flights. The trip by train to the nearest railhead, Dharmanagar, is through the hill station of the NEF Railway and tends to be rather slow. By road Agartala is almost six hundred kilometers from Guwahati, visa Shillong (Meghalaya) and Silchar (Assam).

Puran Rajbari, as the name implies, is the site of an old palace. Now in ruins, it was once the seat of Maharaja Govinda Manikya. Erected some three hundred years ago, it sits in lonely splendor on a hilltop, three km from the old capital, Udaipur (now Radhakishorepur). Close to these ruins is the once-famous temple of Bhubaneswari. It is this temple that has been immortalized in Rabindranath Tagore’s Rajashi and Bisarjan.

The rare sight of colossal figures carved into rocks awaits you at Unakuti Tirtha. To reach this wonder, you have to journey 180 km out of Agartala and then go a further 10 km from Kailashahar. The carvings date back to the early Buddhist and Hindu periods and among the numerous figures are those of Shiva –Kalbhairab, Hanuman, Ram, Lakshman and Ganapati.

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