Tripura A small state of North East India. There are many historical tourist places here. One of them is Kailasahar's Unakoti.

Area : 178 km. from Agartala, 8 km. from Kailashahar, region head quarter of North Tripura District.

Convenience : Unakoti Tourist Lodge(Kailashahar), Juri Tourist Lodge and Uttarmegh Tourist Lodge(Dharmanagar).

Step by step instructions to go to Unakoti : From Agartala to Kailashahar by bus\by train upto Kumarghat and thenafter 30 minutes venture by different intends to Kailashahar.

Unakoti: It is 'Shaiba' (Saivite) journey and traces all the way back to seventh – ninth hundreds of years if not earlier.The superb stone carvings, paintings with their crude magnificence, cascades are not to be missed. Unakoti implies one not exactly a crore and it is said that these many stone cut carvings are accessible here. According to Hindu folklore, when Lord Shiva was going to Kashi alongside one crore divine beings and goddesses he made a night end at this area. He asked every one of the divine beings and goddesses to awaken before sun rise and continue for Kashi.

It is said that toward the beginning of the day, aside from Shiva himself, nobody else could get up so Lord Shiva set out for Kashi himself reviling the others to become stone pictures. Subsequently we have one not exactly a crore stone pictures and carvings at Unakoti.These carvings are situated at a perfectly arranged woods territory with green vegetation all around which add to the excellence of the carvings.The pictures found at Unakoti are of two kinds, specifically rock-cut figures and stone pictures.

Among the stone cut carvings, the focal Shiva head and huge Ganesha figures merit uncommon notice. The focal Shiva head known as 'Unakotiswara Kal Bhairava' is around 30 feet high including a weaved hat which itself is 10 feet high. On each side of the crown of the focal Shiva, there are two full size female figures - one of Durga remaining on a lion and another female figure on the opposite side. Moreover three huge pictures of Nandi Bull are discovered half covered in the ground. There are different other stone just as rock cut pictures at Unakoti. Consistently a major reasonable prevalently known as 'Ashokastami Mela' is held in the period of April which is visited by a great many travelers.

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