Bhimgara is a village in

Khoyrasol Khoyrasol (also spelled Khayrashoal, Khoyrasole) is a village in Khoyrasol CD Block in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Police station Khoyrasol police station has jurisdiction over a pa ...

CD Block in

Suri Sadar subdivision Suri Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of Birbhum district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview Starting in its northern parts with the Brahmani-Mayurakshi Basin, a sub-micro physiographic region occupying the area betw ...

Birbhum district Birbhum district () is an District#India, administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five Divisions of West Bengal, administrative divisions of West Bengal. The distr ...

in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Bhimgarh is located at on the north bank of

Ajay River Ajay (/ˈədʒɑɪ/) is a river which flows through the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The catchment area of Ajay River is . See also List of rivers of India This is a list of rivers of India, starting in the west and movin ...

History

There are remains of an old fort with low earthen ramparts beaten by the weather to low gentle mounds. The place is attributed to the five

Pandava The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) refers to the five legendary brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva—who are the central characters of the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. They are acknowledg ...

s, who are said to have stayed here for some time during their exile. On the other side of the river is

Pandaveswar Pandabeswar (also spelled Pandaveswar) is an administrative centre in Pandabeswar CD Block in Durgapur subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Police station Pandabeswar police station has juris ...

, where there are some temples also attributed to the Pandavas. There is a small temple known as Bhimeswara with a

lingam A lingam ( sa, लिङ्ग , lit. "sign, symbol or mark"), sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva in Shaivism. It is typically the primary ''murti'' or devotional im ...

supposed to have been set up by

Bhim BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is an Indian mobile payment mobile app, app developed by the National Payments Corporation of India, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payments Interface, Unified Payments Int ...

, one of the Pandavas.O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, ''Birbhum'', Bengal District Gazetteers, p. 122, first published 1910, 1996 reprint, Government of West Bengal

Transport

Bhimgara Junction railway station Bhimgara Junction railway station is a junction railway station of Andal–Sainthia branch line of the Asansol railway division connecting from to Sainthia on the Sahibganj loop line. This is under the jurisdiction of Eastern Railway zone of In ...

is situated on the Andal-Sainthia Branch Line of Eastern Railway. As of 2018, the Bhimgara-Palasthali line has remained in-operative.

NH 14 National Highway 162 (NH 162) is a National Highway in India. It is a spur road of National Highway 62. NH-162 traverses the state of Rajasthan in India. NH162 route was extended from Pali to Bhatewar. Route Bar,Sojat City, Pali ...

, running from Morgam (in Murshidabad district) to Kharagpur (in Paschim Medinipur district), passes through Bhimgara.Google maps

References

Villages in Birbhum district {{Birbhum-geo-stub