Mama Bhagne Paharh is a rock formation near

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town of

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in the

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The area

It is a pair of almost spherical natural boulders of granite rock, one balancing on the top of other. The balancing of the rocks are so surprising that it is a famous landmark in West Bengal, where it is known as Mama Bhagne (the maternal uncle and the nephew). The site has a number of boulders splintered across the place. It is the extreme eastern part of the

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where "the granite is gray and composed of glassy quartz pink, gray feldspar and black mica". Those rocks were formed due to the extension of the Chota Nagpur Plateau before many years. At the base of the rocks there is a temple of

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entitled Pahareswar.O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, ''Birbhum'', Bengal District Gazetteers, pp. 125-128, first published 1910, 1996 reprint, Government of West Bengal

Mythology

When

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decided to attack

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, he found it necessary to throw a

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across the

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for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the

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, picked up what stones he needed and drove back. As he was passing Dubrajpur his horses took fright and tilted up the chariot and so some stones fell out. These are the stones at Mama Bhagne. There is another legend to the effect that they were collected by Viswakarma, at the command of

, to erect in one night a second

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. When he collected the rocks and was about to commence work day dawned and so he left. A temple named Pahareshwar is situated at the bottom of hills

In popular culture

The rock formation is a thematic motif of the movie '' Abhijan'' by

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, where the rocks are seen as symbols of human being carrying its sin accumulated over time. A

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story of Satyajit Ray, named

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spotted in Mama Bhagne hill area. It is also the title for Anup Sengupta's '' Mama Bhagne'' (2009), starring

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and

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Mama Bhagne picture gallery

File:Mama Bhagne Hills and Temple 06.jpg, Mama Bhagne Hills File:dubrajpur mama bhangne pahar.jpg, The area is dotted with such boulders File:Mama Bhagne Hills and Temple 01.jpg, Pahareshwar Temple File:Mama Bhagne Hills and Temple 22.jpg, Mama Bhagne rock

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Rock picture
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