The temple at Tilkeshwar Sthana is one such temple has not been noticed and studied properly by historians of repute.  It was not visited by A. Cunningham, who had documented most of the nearby archaeological sites between 1862 -1880.

The site was not found to be mentioned in the list of the Antiquarian Remains of Bihar (D. R. Patil, 1963), which has attempted to contain an exhaustive list of such ancient and medieval monuments, even though the site has an inscription. Thus, the confusion about several aspects of the history of Tilkeshwar Sthana still exist. Geographically, the present temple lies on the extreme end of Darbhanga district, and is at a small distance from the neighbouring Saharsa district.

It is not connected even today by any all weather road. The area in which the temple is located is prone to annual flooding, and the temple is built upon a slightly elevated level ground. The temple town of Mahishi (often identified to be the same as Mahishmati described in the Digvijayas of Adi Shankaracharya) in Saharsa district of Bihar, is not very far. According to a local tradition, this temple site is supposed to have been visited by the Adi Shankaracharya around the 7th / 8th century, who was then on his way to meet the scholar Mandana Mishra, then residing at Mahishmati i.e. present village of Mahishi. 

To be continued......