Historical Period15c CE
15th c. CE (Manikya dynasty)
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Deities
Chaturdaśa Devatā — 14 Tripura Gods
Chaturdaśa — the 14-god pantheon of the royal Tripura
Chaturdaśa — the 14-god pantheon of the royal Tripura
This entry honours the self-representation of Hindu tradition. India's sacred landscape includes hundreds of traditions beyond the Brahminical-Vedic canon. Each has its own cosmology, priesthood, ritual calendar, and relationship with the sacred landscape. Each deserves first-person recognition.
The Chaturdaśa Devatā (14 Gods) temple at Old Agartala is the royal shrine of the Manikya dynasty of Tripura (ruled 1400–1949). The 14 gods combine Hindu, tribal (Tripuri), and Buddhist elements: Hara (Shiva), Umā (Parvati), Hari (Vishnu), Lakshmi, Vāṇī (Saraswati), Kumāra, Gaṇeśa, Brahmā, Pṛthvī (Earth), Samudra (Ocean), Gaṅgā, Agni, Kāma, Hīmādri. Annual Kharchi Pūjā (July) — a 7-day festival invokes all 14. This is the iconic example of Hindu-tribal syncretism in eastern India.
Oṁ Chaturdaśa Devatā namaḥ
Drawn from scholarly ethnographies of Indian tribal and regional religions (Roy, Vidyarthi, Sinha, Fuchs, Sarkar, Sontheimer, Kinsley), colonial-era gazetteers, and contemporary community documentation.
