01Two Hanumans at the station
Two murtis of Hanuman stand in the sanctum, side by side: one who fulfils wishes, one who removes troubles, Sankat Mochan. Travellers off the night trains walk straight across from the station to bow before them, and on Tuesdays and Saturdays the queue reaches the road. On Ram Navami the crowd is counted in lakhs and the whole of Station Road is closed. The old shrine was rebuilt from the 1980s, and the trust took charge.
02Laddu and hospitals
The temple’s naivedyam, a laddu made by cooks brought from the south in the Tirupati manner, is bought by nearly every visitor and carried home across Bihar. The offerings pay for the Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, a children’s hospital and other charities, which made the trust a model for temple administration in north India. Acharya Kishore Kunal, a former police officer and Sanskrit scholar who led it for nearly four decades, died in December 2024. The trust is now building the Viraat Ramayan Mandir in East Champaran.
The life of this place
- 1980sThe old shrine is rebuilt as the present temple.
- December 2024Acharya Kishore Kunal, secretary of the trust, passes away.
Directly opposite the main exit of Patna Junction; open from early morning to late night, with long queues on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
