Bhattarika Temple, Hindu temple in Sasanga village, Cuttack district, India

Bhattarika Temple stands on the bank of the Mahanadi at Sasanga village, Baramba tehsil, Cuttack district. The shrine is dedicated to Maa Bhattarika, worshipped as a manifestation of Shakti and conceived here in the sixteen-year-old (Shodashi) form. The goddess is seated on a Shri Yantra, so some devotees regard her as Parama Vaishnavi Tripurasundari, while others honour her as Durga.

According to legend, two brothers, Hatta and Malla, settled the villages of Shankha and Mahuri here on the orders of the Gajapati king of Puri; the villages later merged as Sankhameri. Searching for a site for their fort, they fought and killed a Shabara and his wife, who before dying told them to worship Kharda's Mahakali and Maa Bhattarika. The brothers built the shrine, and the goddess's name Brihadamba gave Baramba its name. The Bengal Gazette records the Mahashtami festival as beginning under King Fakirchandra Deva around 1700.

The goddess is worshipped as Shodashi and as Tripurasundari seated on a Shri Yantra, while other devotees honour her as Durga riding a lion. Cooked fish is offered to her as bhog. During the sixteen-day Sharadiya Puja from Mulastami, she is dressed as Kishori, Kumari and Paudha at morning, noon and evening, and the golden Besha of these days is not shown at any other time of year.

The temple stands at Sasanga village in the Baramba tehsil of Cuttack district, on the Mahanadi's bank. The main annual gathering is the Mahashtami festival during Dussehra, when devotees come from across the state between Mahasaptami and Dussehra; the two-day jatra draws large crowds, especially for the midnight Kalesi procession. Pana Sankranti in April and Akshaya Tritiya in May are also observed here.

The temple's name for the goddess, Brihadamba, gave Baramba its name: the two brothers who founded the shrine named their state after her, and the word later shifted to Baramba. The deity is honoured with cooked fish offerings, and the sixteen-day autumn festival includes a golden decoration shown at no other time of year.