Ballia district

Ballia district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Ballia district is a part of Azamgarh Division situated in eastern Part of Uttar Pradesh. Main occupation is agriculture. Ballia City is district headquarters and commercial Market of this district. There are four Tehsil(Taluka) in this district viz Ballia, Rasra, Bairiya and Belthara. Rasra is second major commercial area of district, having one government sugar mill and one cotton weaving industry. Though Ballia's core occupation is agriculture but there are some small industry are existing. Maniar is know for its bindi (indian ladies putting on their forehead)industry and major supplier.

The great nationalist and the hero of First war of Indian Independence, Mangal Pandey was born here. National Hero of "Quite India Movement" Chittu Pandey was also from Ballia. The city of Ballia, the district headquarters, is believed to the birth place and workplace of Maharshi Bhrigu. The language spoken in Ballia is Bhojpuri, a dialect of Hindi.

Former Prime minister of India Late Chandra Shekhar was a native of Ibrahimpatti in Ballia district. Ballia is surrounded by two major river Ganges and Ghaghra (Saryu) that make this land more fertile.

Contribution of Ballia to Hindi Literature is immense as many prominent scholars hail from Ballia like Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Purushottam Chaturvedi, Kanshi Nath Singh to name a few.Ballia can boast of one of the most prominent NRI in USA Jagdish Chandra Shukla who heads the University of Occeanogrophy and published hundreds of paper related to environment.

Ballia is surrounded by two major river Ganges and Ghaghra (Saryu)that make this land more fertile.

Ballia is also considered as a holy Hindu city. It has big and small temples. Bhrigu temple in Bhrigu Ashram is considered to be a famous temple where Bhrigu Muni was supposed to reside. Bhrigu muni is the one who according to Hindu Mythology hit Lord Vishnu on his chest. Behind Bhrigu Ashram earlier River Ganga used to flow. Famous Dadri Mela (fair) is still held annually and people from all around the place come to visit it.

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Six miles in the east on Ballia-Bairiya bandh, the village Dubehar is renamed after the name of Mahrishi Durvasa Rishi, where was his Tapovan, during tapasya, he ate Dub(grass) i.e. Dub-Aahar, so the village named as DUBEHAR

External links

* [http://ballia.nic.in Official district web site]

In village Dubehar, there is DEVI DURGAJI temple in the middle of the village, where at every RAMNAVAMI, the devotee performed Puja & Havan and after this they give self minor blood to Maa-Durga. The devotee stand before Maa Durga with folded hands as Namaskar position, a barber(Naai) stand by side,cut a minor mark on the right solder with ustara(a shaving kind of knife) to blood com-up, the devotee wipe their blood with Bel-patra(Bel-leaf) and put it before Maa-Durga. This act is called 'VARDAAN'