It is the place which had detailed told in Markendya Puran. As the legend has it, Durga Saptshati said that when disillusioned with the state of affairs of wordly practices, Raja Surath and Samadhi Vaishya went to the ashram of Medha muni. He advised them to worship goddess Durga who controls the entire cosmos.Both went to the riverside and made pinds of clay of soul and worshipped her. Goddess Du
rga responded to their prayer and appeared to fulfil their wishes. This is the only place in the country that matches the narration in Durga Saptshati. Shakti Ank of the religious book Kalyan also confirms that this particular place is a shaktipeeth. Page 130 of Saran Gudgetier also affirms that this was the place of Raja Prajapati and the prayer spot of Raja Surath and Samadhi Vaishya A very strange speciality is that this temple is situated at a place from where Lord Shiva’s Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Vishvanath temple in Varanasi and Vaidyanath Dham in Deoghar are at equal distance.
