In the Indian state of West Bengal, North 24 Parganas district, is the city and municipality of Gobardanga. It is one of the earliest municipalities of West Bengal and was established on April 20, 1870. The word Gobardanga is Sanskrit in origin. The phrase is made up of the letters Go-Bar-Danga. The phrase is literally translated as Go i.e. world/earth, Bar i.e. greatest and Danga i.e. Place, which is translated to Greatest Place on Earth. Gobardanga has a lengthy historical past. In earlier times, Brahmin zamindars of the Bharadwaj Gotra had controlled Gobardanga. Their descendants continue to live in the Zamindar House, their ancestral house, where they uphold all rules and conduct their customary Durga Puja celebrations. The family that currently owns this mansion, the Mukhopdahyays, hails from Sharsha, which is currently an Upazila in the Bangladeshi division of Jessore District of Khulna. Khelaram Mukhpadhyay of the family built the Zamindar home. The Gobardanga Prasannomoyee Kali Mandir is nearby. The temple, which was built by the then-zamindar Kaliprassana Mukhopaddhyay, faces south and contains 12 other shrines to Lord Shiva, 12 of which are distributed into 6 shrines on either side of the temple. According to some theories and assertions, Rani Rashmoni, the creator of the Dakshineshwar Kali temple in Dakshineshwar, Kolkata, once traveled down the Jamuna river to Gobardanga and encountered the temple. It was from this encounter that she allegedly got the inspiration for building the Dakshineshwar Kali temple alongside 12 other Lord Shiva shrines. People frequently go from adjacent and distant locations to this temple to offer prayers because it is highly popular
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