Kankalitala Mandir Bolpur Birbhum West Bengal Or Kankal Tala the place where Nabani Das Baul is known as the one and only "Khyappa Baul' even today if you ask about Khyappa Baul people will say... Khyappa Baul he is no more..

Kankal Tala Santineketan Birbhum Bengal... Shakti Peeth.. (this is where Maa's skelton fell to earth..)

The people of this place remember Babukishan's aka Krishnendu Das's Grandfather Nabani Or Noboni Das Baul ... they know him a s Khyappa Baul the one and only Khyappa Baul many people have taken this name since his samadhi in 1970 but these people will tell you there is only one Khyappa Baul.... Babukishan's roots are here...

Shakti Peeth - Kankalitala
Photo thanks to William Clark

Kankalitala is a temple town in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the Shakti Peethas where the waist (or kankal in Bengali) of Parvati fell which is at present the Kankalitala town. Goddess Parvati is the residing deity of the Kankalitala Temple.

Such is the prominence of this Temple that it forms a part of the most important Hindu-pilgrimage circuit of India.

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Babukishan's Grandfather and Guru Nabani Das Khyappa Baul aka the one and only KHYAPPA BAUL.... he was well known as Avadhuta of this area where he did his sadhana.. Photo taken by Rabindranath Tagore..