Pagli Masi Temple of Melaghar Tripura
Through the ages, God has appeared in various guises in this catchment of the devotee to take him from the darkness of ignorance to the direction of light. Tripura is the name of this town famous for its tradition and history included in the map of India. Its natural beauty and the history of its kingdom in undivided India still make people curious about Tripura. As a unique addition in the field of religious practice, the word “Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” is uttered as a popular sentence today. Everything in human life is not scientific. Some things have no scientific explanation. That we interpret as miraculous in our own way. This Pagli Masi temple can be called a miraculous pilgrimage place in Tripura where this noble woman has lived for 115 years. Is it just a story around the life story of Pagli masi, or something more? A lot of information is revealed while searching for that question.
Location
Before telling the history, I will tell you where this temple is located. The temple is located near the Melaghar main market at a distance of about 48.6 km from Agartala, the capital of Tripura. Small and big vehicles are stocked from Agartala to Melaghar. You can go to this temple by car or private vehicle if you want.
Temple establishment
The temple of Pagli Masi in present day Melaghar was once a Jagatar Kali temple. Pagli Masi took refuge in this temple in 1983. If you look at the history behind it, many miracles come up. If not all, I will definitely present some events to you. However, in the construction of the temple, it should be noted that this temple was the temple of Maa Kali at that time. Rumors spread that many miracles or wonderful things started happening since Pagli Masi came here. She could see the future. This was also heard in many people’s mouths. After that, the locals started worshiping her as an angel of God.
Arrival of Pagli Masi
Locals estimate that she came across from Bangladesh when she was only 20 years old. The time was approximately 1958 to 1960. At that time, Pagli Masi was living in the house of Abdul Hasem, a resident of Melaghar Padmardhepa. She wandered around like a vagabond all day long and returned home at the end of the day. At night, after everyone had finished eating and fell asleep, Pagli Masi would enter the house through the closed door and sleep on the sack. Abdul’s parents often quarreled about this. One day in the same way Pagli Masi entered the house and slept on Abdul Hasem’s father’s bed. Seeing that, Abdul Hashem’s parents had a huge fight. Feeling humiliated, Pagli masi left their home. Shortly after this, Abdul’s father fell ill. And then again Pagli masi made him better with the medicine made of roots of some trees.
After that she shifted to that Kali temple.
Miraculous events of Pagli Masi
The story of “Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” s miracle is very difficult to describe in a nutshell. Abdul Hashem’s father’s recovery By Pagli masi’s medicine had some kind of miraculous power. Even though they did not understand it immediately, after witnessing the next several incidents, the people of the area gradually started to understand the matter. Once, Masi predicted an accident of a border guard’s vehicle in that area of Melaghar. That happened just one day after that. Besides, during a heavy downpour in Melaghar, Pagli masi was muttering to herself that “lots of water”. Just after some time Melaghar was flooded by heavy flood. Also there are various feats like healing the sick patient, exorcism etc. She gave many reasons to believe that divine power exists beyond this and within Pagli Masi. Masi herself was seriously injured in the accident of the border guard’s car she predicted.
Why is she called Pagli Masi?
Readers must have wondered at first why a person with such divine powers was called “Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” . There are many reasons behind this. She usually didn’t talk much to anyone. But always ran around in a irritable mood and abused. At times she was seen going to the empty forest and hurling abuses into the air and seeing this, the small children of the neighborhood used to tease her more. She was delirious like a mad woman all the time. That’s why her name is Pagli Masi.
Annual festival at Pagli Masi temple
Every year on the second day of the first week of Chaitra month, a grand festival is organized at the temple of Pagli Masi in Melaghar. This festival started since 1999. Locals have been overwhelmed by the glory of Pagli Masi since then. Many people call Pagli Masi as “Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” along with “Siddhai Maa”.
Pagli masi’s worship rituals
Pagli Masi is happy only if she is offered prasad in a clay pot, not a beautifully decorated vessel. No matter how good and expensive sarees are devoted to wear, she is relieved to find an empty jute sack. Many devotees used to carry new jute sacks and clay pots for Pagli Masi while visiting her temple. Innumerable earthen pots full of Prasad were arranged all over the temple. She used to pick up the food she liked from it with two fingers and put it in her mouth.
End of the miraculous chapter
“Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” was not immortal even though she was divine. After showering her immense grace on devotees for more than 100 years, she finally left her body in the temple itself. Her body was kept in the temple on 23rd June 2022 for devotees to visit for the last time. The next day, June 24, her body was cremated and with that the divine soul left this world and went to God. Every year on 23rd June a grand festival is organized in the temple premises to mark the death anniversary of Masi. The devotees recollected her glory.
Conclusion
Even though Pagli Masi is not with us today, her blessings will always be on the heads of millions of people of this state. The miraculous power of “Melaghar Vasi Pagli Masi” will help the poor and downtrodden people of the whole state to get cured. It is with this belief that even today many devotees flock to Masir’s temple. If you ever get a chance, you must visit Pagli Masi Mandir at least once.
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