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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Chhatrabhog
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| subdivision_name2 = [[South 24 Parganas]]
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| subdivision_name3 = [[Mathurapur I]]
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| elevation_m = 7
| population_total = 684
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| demographics1_info1 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<ref name="wblangoff">{{cite web|title=Fact and Figures|url=https://wb.gov.in/portal/web/guest/facts-and-figures;jsessionid=JzdD9RHb7aMY5esZPtcsIVLy|website=Wb.gov.in|access-date=5 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=52nd REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN INDIA|url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|website=Nclm.nic.in|publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]]|access-date=5 July 2019|page=85|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141614/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
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| postal_code = 743354
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| area_code = +91 3174
| registration_plate = [[List of Regional Transport Office districts in India#WB.E2.80.94West Bengal|WB]]-19 to [[List of Regional Transport Office districts in India#WB.E2.80.94West Bengal|WB]]-22, [[List of Regional Transport Office districts in India#WB.E2.80.94West Bengal|WB]]-95 to [[List of Regional Transport Office districts in India#WB.E2.80.94West Bengal|WB]]-99
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| blank2_name_sec1 = Vidhan Sabha constituency
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'''Chhatrabhog''' is a village within the jurisdiction of the [[Mathurapur, South 24 Parganas|Mathurapur]] police station in the [[Mathurapur I]] [[Community development block|CD block]] in the [[Diamond Harbour subdivision]] of the [[South 24 Parganas]] district in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==History==
Many ''[[janapadas]]'' grew up along the old [[Hooghly River|Bhagirathi]] channel from the ancient times till around the 16th century: [[Kalighat]], Boral, [[Rajpur Sonarpur|Rajpur]], [[Harinavi]], Mahinagar, [[Baruipur]], [[Baharu]], [[Jaynagar]], [[Majilpur]], Chhatrabhog etc. [[Bipradas Pipilai]]'s ''Manasavijaya'', composed in 1495, mentions many places in this region. “[[Chand Sadagar]], a merchant character of the ''Manasavijaya'', reached Baruipur, from Kalighat, through the old Bhagirathi channel. From there he proceeded towards Chhatrabhog, and then traveling through Hatiagarh pargana reached the open sea.” [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu|Chaitanyadeva]] (1486-1534) also went through this route. Travelling by boat to [[Puri]] he halted at the village of Atisara, near Baruipur. "His last stoppage in [[24 Parganas]] was at Chhatrabhog, now a village within the jurisdiction of the [[Mathurapur, South 24 Parganas|Mathurapur]] police station. Chhatrabhog seems to have been an important river-port on the old Bhagirathi channel." Rama Chandra Khan, the ''[[zamindar]]'' of Chhatrabhog, helped Chaitanyadeva to continue with his journey.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wbplan.gov.in/HumanDev/DHDR/24%20pgsSouth/s24prg_main.htm | title = District Human Development Report: South 24 Parganas |work= Pages 3-4, Chapter I: South 24 Parganas: An overview| publisher = Department of Planning and Statistics, Government of West Bengal |access-date = 15 December 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161005044029/http://wbplan.gov.in/HumanDev/DHDR/24%20pgsSouth/s24prg_main.htm | archive-date = 5 October 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Chhatrabhog was a pilgrimage<ref>https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.357756/page/n159</ref> site in honor of the goddess [[Tripura Sundari]]<ref>{{cite web | url =https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.303440|title= Page no 72-76 & 113 of online}}</ref> set up first by King 'Kalinda' with the help of grandfather 'Patadarn' who belongs to ancient Tripura King Dynasty of old Tribeg Kingdom and Ambulinga<ref name="Monographs 1930">Varendra Research Society’s Monographs ( No-4) ,Antiquities of North West Sunderban by Kalidas Dutta Page no-11 Published by Bijaynath Sarkar Varendra Research Society’s from Cotton Press, 57, Harrison Road, Calcutta in July 1930,Collection of Government of India Central Archaeological Library, New Delhi Accession No 22517.</ref> ([[Shiva|Lord Shiva]]) from very earlier period. This place is regarded by local people as a Hindu Shakti 'Peeth Sthan'. Chakratirtha, an important part of greater Chatrabhog, is mentioned in a Sanskrit drama from the 11th century in ''Probodha Chandradoya'', a commodeia of Krishna Misri. It is claimed that Chakratirtha is referred to as a ''janapada'' (the location of a flourishing settlement).<ref>{{cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=I0B7VXob8yYC|page=68}}|title=Prabodha Chandrodaya|last1=Brockhaus|first1=Hermann|last2=Krsnamisra|first2=Hermann Brockhaus, Krishna Misri|publisher=Georg Olms Verlag|year=1979|isbn=978-3-487-41064-7|pages=68}}
</ref> According to local people and also authentic Book, Shri Chaitanyadev(1510 A. D.), Shri Shri Anukulchandra(1917 A.D.), Alibardi Khan (About 1744-1745 A.D.Grand father of Sirajuddaulla ), Peer Gorachand(Near about 1350 A.D.) visited this place.

From the description of [[Chaitanya Bhagavata]] of Virndabon Das, hundred of mouths<ref>Sri Vrindavan Das Thakura Mahashaya. Chaitanya Bhagavat. p. 883.</ref><ref name="Monographs 1930"/> of Ganga/ Jhanabi were present at the time [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]] visited in 1510 A.D., where he bathed with his companion in [[Ambulinga Ghat]]. This was attached to God Ambulinga (Shiv). From the mythological source of Chaitanya Bhagavata, it is known that Chhatrabhog is the union place of Lord Shiva and Goddess Ganga. A real story is depicted in ''Antya Leela of Chaitanya Bhagavata''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ChaitanyaBhagavat|title=Chaitanya Bhagavat|last=Sri Vrindavan Das Thakura Mahashaya|pages=883}}</ref>

==Geography==
Chhatrabhog is located at {{coord|22.1223|N|88.4247|E|format=dms}}. It has an average elevation of {{convert|7|m}}.

Although several small villages are named Chhatrabhog, originally it was a rather large region. From Jalghata village to Kumarpara (near Raidighi B. Ed. College) a triangular island had the same name. The northern and western sides of the Chhutorbhog river used to flow and meet with the Moni River. The [[Adi Ganga]] flows mainly into the Bhagirathi, in which the mythological King Bhagirath led to River Ganga to Sagar Confluence. Scholars suggest that five thousand years ago the [[Bay of Bengal]] was close to Chhatrabhog like Tmralipta port situated in Midnapore. One of [[Dashanami Sampradaya]] Giri who came from [[Uttar Pradesh]] to preach [[Shaivism|Saivaism]] in [[Bengal]] wrote ''Tarakeswar Shiv Tatwa''. This book was published in the 18th Century, sometime after 1729 A.D. In this book, ''Barashi Math'' Ambulinga Shiv temple was shown in [[Gangasagar]].<ref>Sundarboner Shaktipith: Chhatrabhog , Devishankar Middya ,4th Chapter page-62 published by Nazibul Islam Mondal from Samakaler Jion Kathi Prakash on in 2017 {{ISBN|978-81-9319-13-9-2}}.</ref>

==Demographics==
According to the [[2011 Census of India]], Chhatrabhog had a total population of 684, of which 354 (52%) were males and 330 (48%) were females. There were 85 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Chhatrabhog was 437 (72.95% of the population over 6 years).<ref name=census2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/cdb_pca_census/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA) | work= 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 17 December 2016}}</ref>

==Transport==
Bishnupur-Raidighi Road links Chhatrabhog to the [[State Highway 1 (West Bengal)|State Highway 1]].<ref name="google">Google maps</ref>

[[Mathurapur Road railway station]] is located nearby.<ref name="google"/>

==Healthcare==
Mathurapur Rural Hospital at [[Mathurapur, South 24 Parganas|Mathurapur]], with 60 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Mathurapur I CD block.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.wbhealth.gov.in/other_files/RH.pdf | title = Health & Family Welfare Department | work= Health Statistics – Rural Hospitals | publisher = Government of West Bengal |access-date = 29 November 2019}}</ref>

==Chhatrabhog Picture Gallery==
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File:Tripura Sundar Devi of Chhatrabhog Jan2015.jpg| '''Maa TripuraSundari of Chhatrabhog ''' The Goddess referred in Kavikankan's Chandi(1595 A.D.), worshiped by Dhanapati Sadagar.
File:Gour Pad Peeth Temple Chhatrabhog Jan 2015.jpg|'''Gour Pada Peeth Temple''' commemorates the visit of Sri Chaitanyadeb to Chhatrabhog.( Foot print set up inside in 1929).
File:"An old source of drinking water of Chhatrabhog".jpg|'''Raghab Dutta's Dighi''' ( Used as an Old Source of Drinking water of Chhatrabhog
File:AMBULINGA SHIV TEMPLE IN CHHATRABHOG IN SOUTH 24 PGS W.B. INDIA.jpg|'''Ambu-Linga<ref name="Monographs 1930"/> Shiva Temple''' (Barasi's Shiv). Shri Chaitanya Dev visited nearby Ghat at this place in 1510 A.D.The Nwabab of Bengal Alibardi Khan donated 550 Bigha Land for this Temple .
</gallery>

==References==
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{{South 24 Parganas}}
{{Hindu temples in West Bengal}}
{{South 24 Parganas topics}}

[[Category:Villages in South 24 Parganas district]]

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