6/21/2016 Trivia: Myths About Unakoti | Tourism Infopedia http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/specialfeature/triviamythsaboutunakoti/ 1/12 Trivia: Myths About Unakoti 21 Jun shefali No Comments (http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/special-feature/trivia-myths-about- unakoti/#disqus_thread) (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/special- feature/trivia-myths-about-unakoti/) (https://plus.google.com/share? url=http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/special-feature/trivia-myths-about-unakoti/) (http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/special-feature/trivia-myths- about-unakoti/&text=Trivia%3A+Myths+About+Unakoti+) http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.tourisminfopedia.com/specia feature/trivia-myths-about-unakoti/) A Magical Place Hidden Into Unakoti Hills Innumerable huge rock-cut images and stone idols of Lord Shiva lay silently in the lost hills of Unakoti. Behind this persists the mystery that how they were made. We are only left with various myths to rest upon.
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6/21/2016 Trivia: Myths About Unakoti | Tourism Infopedia
A Magical Place Hidden Into Unakoti HillsInnumerable huge rock-cut images and stone idols of Lord Shiva lay silently in the lost hills of Unakoti. Behind thispersists the mystery that how they were made. We are only left with various myths to rest upon.
Located in the chief tourist spot of Unakoti District in the Kailashahar subdivision of Tripura, Unakoti is an ancientShaivite place of worship with colossal rock carvings of Shiva.
Let’s delve into the history of Unakoti which gave rise to such a magical place:
1. Literally Unakoti means one less than a crore.
2. Unakoti houses one of the largest bas-relief sculptures in the country. Bas-relief is a type of ancient Asian art inwhich an image is projected at a shallow depth.
6/21/2016 Trivia: Myths About Unakoti | Tourism Infopedia
4. Myth 1 – Lord Shiva was travelling with ten million deities to Kashi. On the way, the deities decided to stay for thenight at Unakoti. Before taking a sleep, Shiva warned the followers to wake up before dawn to continue the journeyon time. However, only Shiva was the only one to wake up to time. Shiva turned angry on this and cursed to thefellow deities turning them into stones who now adorn the hills of Unakoti as reliefs.
5. Myth 2 – The alternative myth is about a famous sculpture named Kallu Kumhar who was a devotee of Parvatiand wanted to go with Shiva and Parvati to their abode i.e. Kailash Parvat. Shiva agreed to take Kallu to Kailash onone condition if he would sculpt one crore images of Shiva in one night. Kallu worked but he was just one imageshort and as a result his desire didn’t get fulfilled.
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6. Another version of Myth 2 – another variation of aforementioned story is that Kallu Kumhar was given the duty ofcarving the stone images of Gods in a dream, but in spite of carving images of all the deities, he carved one lastimage of himself that made it just one short of a crore. As per believe of the locals it was a lesson on why not tosubmit to pride.
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7. The most celebrated of all the Unakoti reliefs is a figure of the face of Lord Shiva known as ‘Unokotiswara KalBhairava’ measuring about 9 meters in height.
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