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Approximately, 200 people visit Pilak every day. The tourism circuit starts from Agartala and links Pilak with Udaipur, a temple town in the northeastern state where Tripureswari Kali temple, one of the 51 Shaktipiths is situated.
Nestled in Jolaibari, Pilak formed part of a chain of Hindu-Buddhist sites on tri-junction of East Bengal (now Bangladesh), Tripura and Arakkan (Myanmar) region | Travel
Research by late Ratna Das, who had authored a book on Pilak, suggest that the place had emerged as a major Hindu-Buddhist site in the eighth century.
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