Famous Temples in India

Religious Significance

There are a couple of legends connected with this deity. The most well known and popular version is that about 1500 years ago Karad Vania from Marwar (a term loosely used in olden times for the present-day Rajasthan) was touring this area to sell his wares and stopped in the spot where the present temple of the goddess stands to spend the nine days of ‘Navratri’ as he was a devotee of the Goddess Amba. He did not have any issues, so he always prayed to her to give him a child. While sleeping in the night he saw the deity in his dream who asked him to build a temple on the spot where he stopped. As a token of the veracity of this dream, She is said to have added, on waking up he would find a coconut and a ‘chundri’ (a piece of red-colored cloth with tie and dye work on it). But the Goddess had given a specific injunction that after the temple was built its doors should be shut and were not to opened for six months by which time she would establish herself therein. However a couple of months before the expiry of six months Devchand (the name of the Vania) started hearing the sounds of celestial music after sunset and during the night. He could not contain himself after some time and opened the doors of the temple and so found the deity on her knees in the pose in the midst of her attempts to stand up as She appears today. Thus it is likely that the image in/nature formation of a rock may have already been there and was being worshipped in that state and Devchand had a temple built over it on her wish for a child having been fulfilled.