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kuldevi mata (family deity) - goddess Description Our Kuldevi Pahari Mayya

Location - Village : Pahari Post : Nakipur - Dighawa Mandi Tehsil : Loharu District: Bhiwani State : Haryana

Significance - Shakti-Peeth

Time For Festivity - Ashvin(Sept.-Oct.) & Chaitra (March-April) - Navaratri;

One of the major Hindu pilgrimage is the Shree Pahari Mata Temple located in the state of Haryana. The Temple is situated on the top of a Mountain.

The temple is thronged by devotees in large numbers throughout the year. Also referred to as a 'Shakti Peeth', the presiding deity of this temple is Shree Pahari Mata.

A section of the visitors come for the mundan ceremony ( the first hair cutting ceremony) of their children and offer the crop of hair at the altar of goddess. Among other visitors married couples also come to invoke the blessings of the goddess for a happy married life.

In Navaratris, the mountain and the areas near it is filled with full of excitements with beautiful lightnings, mela (fair), with prasada, bhojan, sakchandi, bhajan, kirtan, and huge gathering and long waiting lines for darshans.

The people who visits the Temple and have faith in Shree Pahari Mata, never goes bare hands - as heard from my ancestors & I myself have faith & also have experienced the same

Historical True Story about Pahari Mata Ji ("BADI MATA of stone" beside the marble made Idol) -

Near about 6 decades ago, a man in nakkipur was hitting hard on the rocks to make the area plane. While cutting the rocks he found a stone in the shape of DEVI having eyes nose mouth. By mistake he hit the hammer on the nose of that stone of devi.

Since then, the people around the village started worshiping the stone and they kept the name - "NAKTI MATA" - (meaning - without nose), and from there the village got its name NAKKIPUR.

I would request to update stories heard by you from your ancestrals.

Will update more true stories heard from my GRANDMOM very soon.