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Charchika Temple is one of the oldest Shakti places in Odisha India. Chachika is located in a town of Banki of Cuttack district in Odisha. The presiding deity of Charchika is an eight-armed goddess Chamunda locally known as Maa Charchika Devi. Charchika is seated on a prostrate human body and wearing a garlend of human skull.
Charchika maa displays khadga, shula, katari and varadamudra in her four right hands whereas the four left hands represent severed head, blood-cup, ‘’damru’’ and leaving a finger of the remaining hand soaked in blood. Charchika temple is situated on top of a small hillock Ruchika Parvata on the banks of the Renuka river.
The present temple of Charchika was reconstructed in the 19th century. But the remarkable point is the enshrining deity Maa Charchika on iconographical point of view can be assigned to the 9th - 10th centuries A.D. i.e. Bhaumakar rule in Odisha. It is believed that the Charchika idol was created by Parshuram. Stone is used for the construction of the Charchika temple and the entire surface is thickly lime plastered and white washed. The ceiling of the mandapa is made of wood whereas the pillars are in stone.