Accounting of ‘Mata Tripureshwari’s ornaments

She may not be the riches deity in the country in terms of accumulated wealth and ornament. In fact India’s three richest religious places come serially as the Lord Ventateshwara temple in Andhra’s Tirupati, celebrated ‘Dargah’ of Khwaja Mainuddin Chishti (Garib Nawaj or Garib Baba) of Ajmer in Rajasthan and the Golden Temple in Punjab’s Amritsar. But the Mother Protector of Tripura over the past more than five hundred years-the temple was formally inaugurated n the year 1501 by princely Tripura’s conqueror-ruler Dhanya Manikya (1490-1520)-‘Mata Tripureshwari’s temple is one of the holiest Hindu shrines in the Indian subcontinent, one of the fifty one hallowed ‘Shakti-Peeths’. The presiding deity in the five hundred yearold temple, ‘Mata Tripureshwari’ has also been offered gifts of devotion in the form of monetary contribution and gold ornaments. 

After long 69 years these gold ornaments are being weighed and counted for proper accounting in the treasury office of district magistrate in Gomati under strict security and supervision of district magistrate Tarun Kanti Debnath, retired district and session judge Subrata Paul and other officials including Trust member Chandan Chakraborty  the counting and weighing had commenced from Tuesday morning and is continuing today, keeping a proper catalogue. Out of altogether seven huge trunks of ornaments, 9 kgs of gold in two trunks and 42 kgs of silver have already been counted . Sources said that a round of counting had been done last in 1959 and since then accumulation has been continuing without proper weighing and counting. The current process along with proper cataloguing will continue till the work is over.