Mithila Shakti Peetha

Manipur Devi Asthan, also known locally as Manipur Durga Temple or Manokamna Siddhi Sthan, is situated in the Samastipur area of Bihar’s Mithila region. Samastipur district information records that the local temple was established in 1934, later came under the Bihar State Religious Trust Council and received its deity in a newly constructed temple in 2016. It is known regionally as a place where devotees pray for the fulfilment of wishes.

This database associates the shrine with the classical Mithila Shakti Peetha tradition, in which Sati’s left shoulder, or vama-skandha, fell in Mithila. The goddess is named Uma or Mahadevi and Bhairava is Mahodara. The ancient sources identify the broad Mithila region rather than one uncontested modern temple. Consequently, Manipur Devi Asthan is one regional claimant among several, including sites at Uchchaith, Saharsa, Begusarai and locations near Janakpur. Its identification must therefore remain qualified.

Navaratri and Durga Puja are the main periods of Goddess worship, and local accounts describe a large fair at the temple. Public evidence securely supports the modern Manipur Durga shrine and its regional devotional importance, but not an exclusive claim to the classical Peetha location. The site is best understood as a living Mithila Goddess temple linked by later tradition to Uma, Mahadevi and the left-shoulder Peetha account.