Sri
Ugratara Sanskritik Mahotsav 2013 , Mahishi :
“Sri
Ugratara Sanskritik Mahotsav” organized by Department of Tourism , Bihar on 6th
and 7th October, 2013 at the divine land of Maa Ugratara filled with
the spirits of famous meemansak Mandan Mishra and culturally rich place Mahishi
in the district Saharsa, Bihar presented
a true image of Maithili culture with rich folk traditions. There were plenty
of events organized to showcase the rich cultural traditions, historical
heritage, spiritual values and many more.
The Mahotsav
was inaugurated on October 6th ,2013 by the Sri Narendra Narayan
Yadav ,Hon. Cabinet Minister Law, Planning & Development, Govt. of Bihar
amidst the chants of Vedas by disciples of “Ved Vidya Kendra” at Mahishi. The
other present guest of honors were Sri Dinesh Chandra Yadav Hon. MP Loksabha,
Sri Arun Kumar Yadav Hon. MLA Bihar
Assembly, Sri Alok Ranjan Hon. MLA Bihar Assembly, Prof. Abdul Gafoor Hon. MLA
Bihar Assembly, Sri A N Pandey Director
SAP and Former Nuclear Scientist BARC Mumbai , Sri Pankaj K Mishra Asst.
Professor Delhi University, Sri Dev N Pathak Asst. Professor SAARC University
New Delhi and local district administration officials.
In his
inaugural speech Hon. Minister Sri Yadav threw the light on the historical and
archeological importance of Mahishi and importance of the place as Shaktipeeth.
He repeated the commitments of Hon. CM Bihar Sh. Nitish Kumar to protect the
cultural, archeological, religious and historical heritage of Koshi region and
bring it on tourism map. He also instructed to speed up the beautification work
of Ugratara temple and development of it as tourist place initiated by Hon. CM
Bihar Sri Nitish Kumar himself during first “Sri Ugratara Sanskritik Mahotsav”
in 2012.
The inaugural session was also addressed by Hon.
MP Loksabha, sitting MLAs, Vice –President Ugratara Temple Trust committee Sh.
Pramil K Mishra, invited scholars and guests under the president ship of DM Saharsa.
On occasion
of Maotsav a souvenir “DHAROHAR” is also published with rich articles on Maa
Ugratara, Vidushi Bharti, Acharya Mandan Mishra , Mithila and Maithil Culture. The
souvenir published is a research book in itself as it has various research
articles on relevant subjects of eminent national and international level
scholars.
An “Udyog
Mela” and “Agriculture Fare” was also organized by District Administration which
was inaugurated by Hon. Minister Sri Yadav and District Judge Kumar Deodutta
jointly. In the agri fair focus was on display of techonology based scientific
methods of agriculture. In the “Udyog Mela” there were stalls of various
industrial setups in the region, handicrafts, local food items and financial
institutions. Apart from them, there were stalls of various govt. departments informing
about different govt. schemes to public and utilizing them.
The evening of first day of “Sri Ugratara
Sanskritik Mahotsav” was filled with the joys of local folk cultural programmes
by troops of “SWARANJALI” which was later taken over by famous bollywood and
Bhojpuri bhajan singer Kalpana Patowary. In the performances of SWARANJALI main
focus was to present rich cultural and musical heritage of Mithila region via
different songs of poet Vidyapati, songs on Maa Ugratara and various occasional
songs like sama-chakewa, sohar, crop harvesting time, and many more such songs.
The famous
singer KALPANA PATOWARY from Mumbai started her performance late in evening
with her famous number “Jekar nath bholenath…………. ”after addressing everyone in
local maithili language and Ganesh vandana. The magical moment of stage was
presentation of rich Bhojpuri folk Bideshiya & Nautanki of Late Bhikhari
Thakur often called “The shakespear of
Bhojpuri” by one of his fellow troop
member 105 Yrs. Old Sri Ramagya Ram and his team along with Kalpana Patowary. People
even from remote places were stationed till end of programme around 2 O’clock and
hardly there was any space left in ground which has capacity of more than 10
thousand people. Singer Kalpana presented various songs in different folk
languages Bhojpuri, Maithili, Rajsthani, Punjabi and ended with her famous
bollywood numbers in Hindi.
The second day
of Mahotsav on 7th oct. 2013 witnessed a convention of national and
international level intellectuals gathered from various parts of country under
the stage organization of Vice President, Ugratara Temple Trust committee Sh.
Pramil Kumar Mishra and President ship of Former Nuclear scientist BARC and Director
SAP Hyderabad Sh. Amrendra N Pandey. The list of dignitaries include Professors
from various universities, Authors, Writers, researchers and local
intellectuals. All the speakers put on their views on Maa Ugratara, the
discourse between Mandan Mishra and Adi Shankaracharya, the relevance of
philosophy of meemansak Mandan Mishra in modern times and correlation of it
with various other philosophical and spiritual domains. A speaker Sh. Pankaj K
Mishra from St. Stephen’s college, Delhi University focused on the need of
including Mandan Mishra and his philosophies in school and college level
syllabus. A verbal resolution was also passed among the present guests and
audience to change the name of Mahishi to “Mahishmati” to correlate it with its
original glory and unique identification. All the present speakers were later
honored by presenting a Memento featuring Maa Ugratara Temple by Hon. Distt.
Judge Kumar Deodutta and DM Saharsa Sri Shashibhushan Kumar.
In the
evening of second day of Mahotsav the popular radio programme of Akashvani
Darbhanga “GAAM- GHAR” was relayed from the stage of “Sri Ugratara Sanskritik
Mahotav” and people were very happy upon seeing and hearing their artists live.
The programme was later extended with the presentation of many Maithili folk
regional songs and dances by various artists of region.
The last
artistic performance of Mahotsav was a magical one and will be in memory of
people from years as it was of famous Bhojpuri Singer MALINI AWASTHY. The
magical performance started at around 10 O’clock in night and then it was a
complete 3 Hrs. unforgettable moments with songs in Bhojpuri, Awadhi and Hindi ranging
from patriotic songs to bhajans and Bhojpuri. All these three hours people were
dancing on her tunes and specially ladies and children enjoyed the show much as
once she reached among their gallery and started performing there. Her performance covered bhakti songs on Devi
Ugratara like “Tohre saran mein aaye hain jagdamba maiya….”,patriotic songs,
chhath puja songs and various relevant social cultural songs. At the end she
was presented memento of Mahotsav by DDC, Saharsa Sh. Yogendra Ram.
The organization of such kind of state govt.
events in Mahishi is indeed a historical one and proves the commitment of Hon.
CM Bihar Sri Nitish Kumar to bring it on tourism map as developed place which
was earlier announced by him during Seva Yatra 2011 and later repeated in first
Sri Ugratara Sanskritik Mahotsav in 2012 which was inaugurated by him. The
deptt. Of tourism is doing a job of appreciation by providing adequate funds
and guidance for development to local administration and Temple trust
committee.
The Village Mahishi , Maa Ugratara
and Mandan Mishra :
Mahishi is a
village situated 16 kms west of district headquarter Saharsa and 296 Kms east
of state capital Patna. The village has a great archeological,
historical, religious and linguistic values. The village is famous for ancient
temple of “Ugratara”,
the discourse held between Mandan Mishra and Adi Shankaracharya,
the great poet and author of Maithili and Hindi Rajkamal,
and many modern marvel scholars. The village has a rich history and tradition
which has been proved by excavation works carried time- to- time in the
village.
The history of Mahishi goes back in 8th Century as it has been learnt and later established that Mahishi was the birthplace of great Meemansak and Advait Vedanti Acharya Mandan Mishara in 8th century and he lived here with his wife Devi Bharti. A religious discourse (“Shastratha”) was held between Pt. Manadan Mishra and Adi Shankracharya in mahishi and later it was joined by the wife of Pt. mishra, Devi Bharti. Finally Adi Shankaracharya was defeated by Bharti and again came second time for the discourse. The place of discourse is still lying in Mahishi and needs a major excavation work to establish these theories of history.
The places
around Mahishi also have archeological and historical importance which was duly
recognized by Archeological survey of India and state government. There is
located Sun Temple established by King Narsimha Dev
of Karnataka Dynasty in Kandaha near Mahishi. This is the temple where Sun is
worshipped as god and his idol is placed over here carved over a single stone
slab.
A
website has also been raised to give information and connect people from across
the countries to Mahotsav and Mahishi. The details can be found at visiting the
community website of Mahishi http://usm.mahishi.org or http://www.mahishi.org and official
website http://saharsa.bih.nic.in .
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The above report has been prepared by Sh. Amit Kumar Choudhary . Administrator Mahishi.org for detailed view on the events organized during Ugratara Sanskritik Mahotsav, Mahishi on 6th and 7th October, 2013. Sh. Choudhary is involved in the organization of mahotsav since its inception and has contributed in various duties for organization. The website of Mahotsav "http:\\usm.mahishi.org" is also the brainchild of him and all the intellectual designs of cover page of souvenir, logo are provided by him. He is happy presenting his day to day accessing for the mahotsav and we request you to share it the most and put your views via comments. We also request you write your experiences and reviews and mail it to us on info@mahishi.org. We will publish it via our on handle with due credits to you.
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