The temples in West Bengal. Kinjal has focused on these and is a storehouse of information. This is the first. we will do many on different structures, modes of worship, legends. An interactive presentation
Manchas are of three types – dolmancha, rasmancha and tulsimancha. Of these tulsimanchas are present not only in domestic households but also in many temples of West Bengal. Of the three a rasmancha is larger than a dolmancha while the latter is larger than a tulsimancha. According to David McCutchion, “The dolmancha was most commonly built in the eighteenth century, they are spread over the whole of Bengal, wherever Krishna was worshipped.”