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Banshiwala Mandir, Nagaur
Banshiwala Mandir, or "Nagar Seth Bansiwala Mandir" is a sacred Hindu temple, Situated in Nagaur City, Nagaur District, Rajasthan. This temple is dedicated to The Lord Krishna.The temple is the on the centre of attraction of Nagaur City. This temple is know for various reasons such as its architecture, it's Shivalaya, or being rare temple where Radha and rukwani resides with Lord Krishna. The temple also have a shivalaya which is around 30 to 50 feet deeps under the ground from temples floor.

The History and Legend
As per the pujari of the temple the temple could be around roughly 700 to 1000 years old as the oldest available document suggest it's renovation in year 1290 AD. Before the lord krishna's temple was built, a

a shivl ing was founded a gopalak, as per the legend this place was a pasture field in the past. Cows often start to often milk hereiby themsesves, l, later on founding was it ve

ry special and odd even, people dug out the land found a natural shivling, which was later placed and shivlay was made. by th the shivlay rest of the temple was built on top of it. This is the reason this shivlicalled named "Pataleshwaar Mahadev Mandir" Meaning Shivling directly out of the pataal or the ground.

There is another story related to the shivling which is that, during the rule of Aurangzeb, due to his conflict with jaswant singh he order the demolition of temples in the state of jodhpur. When the soliders came to demolish the shivlaya it started to fill with water and shivling was submerged, fearing that water level may rise further the soldiers left the temple without demolishing it. Still shivalaya often get filled with underground water, which is pumped out, even though now its surrounded by the cemented marble stones.