Sri Eka Veera Devi Temple – Mahur
Sri Eka Veera Devi Temple
is located in Mahur near Nanded in Maharashtra State.
She is an incarnation of
Goddess Parvati.
One can see only the head
of the Goddess Here
This temple is one of the
18 Maha Shakti Peethas and is where Sati Devi's right hand was fallen here.
Ekaveera temple is a
small temple with one hall and a Sanctum sanctorum. Renuka Devi temple is another
temple that people visit along with Ekaveerika Shakthi Peeth. Mahur is famous
for the Renuka Devi temple and very few people know about Ekaveerika Devi temple mostly they call the Renuka Devi temple Shakti peeth. It is said that Ekaveerika Devi is the elder
sister of Renukadevi.
Prasad is ground here
pan patta and supari are ground as paste and offered as prasad. Ekaveerika Devi temple is 8 km from Renuka
Devi temple on the Nanded highway and 300M from the main road. Very few people
visit this temple and we could not find even poojari in the temple. Opposite the temple, there is one Gomata samadhi.
Renuka was the daughter
of King Renu of Kubaj country and the wife of the sage Jamadagni. When King Sahastrarjuna paid a visit to Jamadagni in his abode, he was taken by surprise
by the hospitality of the sage. When asked about the same, the sage told him
that it was all because of the Kamadhenu, i.e., a cow that fulfills the desires of
the owner given to him by Indra, the king of the Gods. Thinking that if the
Kamadhenu was in his possession he would be able to maintain his vast army
easily, King Sahastrarjuna tried to seize the Kamadhenu from the sage by
farce when his request to hand over the Kamadhenu to him was turned down by the
sage. In the scuffle that ensued the sage died and his wife Renuka was injured
due to 21 wounds she had received at the hands of the king. At this juncture, many soldiers appeared on the scene from the body of the Kamadhenu by divine
magic and forced the king to retreat. On coming to know of the above incident
Parasuram, the son of Jamadagni who rushed there vowed to defeat and punish the
king 21 times. His mother asked him to cremate his father. He carried his
father and mother to Mahur and cremated his father there. His mother became a
sati. The religious rites were conducted on this occasion by the God Sri
Dattatreya himself. However, after everything was over Parasuram was stricken
by grief and at this time a voice from the heavens told him that his mother
would come out from the earth but he should not look behind. Being eager to see
his mother, Parasuram just saw behind for a fraction of a second to find the
mother's face over the earth. The upper facet is the present upper facet of the
Renukadevi.
This temple was 800 years
old.
How to reach the Temple
4 km from Mahargud
Nearby Temples
Renuka Mata Temple – 10 km.
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