On the bank of the Ajay river at Ketugram in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal stands the Bahula Shakti Peetha. In the tradition of the fifty-one Peethas, the left arm (bahu) of Sati fell here, and the Goddess is worshipped as Bahula, with Bhiruk as her Bhairava. Though her name recalls the Sanskrit for arm, devotees delight that bahula also means abundant, and revere her as a Mother who bestows prosperity.
The Goddess is honoured in a Mahishamardini form within a temple beside the river, drawing pilgrims especially through Navaratri and the Durga Puja season. Bahula is one of the dense cluster of Shakti Peethas across the Bardhaman-Birbhum heartland, a region richly woven with the seats of the Mother.
