Bahula Shakti Peetha

Shri Bahula Sati Peeth at Ketugram is an important Goddess shrine in Purba Bardhaman District, West Bengal. The temple is dedicated to Bahula Devi and stands within a rural sacred landscape that contains several notable Shakti traditions. It is visited by local worshippers and pilgrims travelling through the Ketugram and Katwa region.

The Peetha is recorded as Bahula. In the tradition followed by this database, Sati’s left arm, or vama-bahu, fell at Ketugram. The Goddess is Bahula and the accompanying Bhairava is Bhiruka, with Tivraka appearing as a variant. The modern temple is the accepted identification, while differences in transliteration and the Bhairava name should remain visible in the record. The left-arm association is comparatively stable across accounts of this Peetha.

Navratri and Durga Puja bring special worship and increased pilgrimage, although exact local festival programmes should be confirmed annually. Bahula can be included with Jogadya at Kshirgram and other Goddess shrines of Purba Bardhaman to form a regional Shakti itinerary. The temple’s importance rests on its continuing village worship and clearly preserved left-arm tradition rather than monumental scale. Its location at Ketugram gives the Peetha a strong local identity and makes it an essential part of Bengal’s wider network of Sati-associated sacred sites.