Maa Kushmanda Devi Temple: The period of Shardiya Navratri is going on in which today is dedicated to Maa Kushmanda Devi, the fourth form of Maa Durga. According to Hindu belief, Mother Kushmanda Devi is known as the mother who created the universe. Many diseases and defects are cured by worshiping her on the fourth day. Apart from this, there is a temple in which many secrets and miracles are hidden, about which only a few people know. Let us know about one such Kushmanda temple where devotees get blessings by visiting it.
Let us tell you that this miraculous temple of Mother Kushmanda Devi is located in Ghatampur town in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Where water seeps from the Pindi i.e. idol of Mata, which is considered quite miraculous, it is said that the devotees who worship Maa Kushmanda Devi with great rituals, their eye disorders get cured. People believe that if a person If you apply mother water to your eyes for 6 months, your lost vision can be restored. In this miraculous temple, Mother Kushmanda Devi is seated in the form of Pindi with two faces, the basis of whose beginning and end has not been found yet. It is said that here the idol of Mother Goddess is seen in a lying position. Water oozes from their pindi which helps in curing all eye diseases. Due to this belief, devotees reach here in large numbers.
If we talk about the temple here, the idol of Maa Kushmanda Devi is found here in Chatushtaya shape, which is the only idol of this type in the world. Due to this, on the fourth day of Navratri, a large number of devotees come here and offer raw gram along with the makeup of the Mother Goddess. Here Kumhada is also sacrificed which is most dear to Goddess Kushmanda.
The specialty of this temple is that, instead of the priest, the puja is done by the Malin (one who distributes flowers from house to house). It is Maa Kushmanda who adorns herself, wears clothes and offers offerings to Goddess Kushmanda. This tradition has been going on here for hundreds of years. . Kamla Devi, the maid of the temple, says that every day hundreds of people come for darshan and apply the water seeping from the idol of Mata on their eyes. She says that it is considered beneficial in case of eye strain and cataract.
The history of this Maa Kushmanda temple is old, in which the idol style of two-faced Kushmanda Devi is found in the Maratha period, which is believed to be between the second to fifth century. It is said that the one who discovered this temple was a cowherd named Kohra. He had constructed Maa Ki Madhiya at this place in the year 1330, after which a businessman got this temple renovated in the year 1890. .
A story about this temple says that earlier there used to be a forest near this temple in which pet animals were taken for grazing in the area. Every day a cow used to come to this place and spill her milk. The owner of this cow became worried that his cow’s milk was disappearing every day and when he followed his cow, he saw the cow spilling milk at this very place. When he excavated this place, he found this idol of the mother and when he tried to take out this idol, he got lost while digging, after which he made Madhiya. It was a miracle that Mata’s Purti could not be taken out. It was also a miracle that after digging for so many days, the digging would start again from the same place.
