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Multi-periodSite Name: Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Country: India Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Shimla  Nearest Village: Sarahan
Latitude: 31.510308N  Longitude: 77.795272E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist : Bhimakali Temple (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Temple in India. With its unusual architecture and wealth of wood carvings, Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan is a major monument that is duplicated no where else in the hill states. The temple is a restoration of the ancient temple as this area suffers from earthquakes.

Dedicated to the mother goddess Bhimakali presiding deity of the Rulers of former Bushahr Sate, situated at 2150 mtrs MSL this magnificent temple is about 180 kms. from Shimla.With its capital at Shonitpur this former princely state was extended up to entire area of Kinnaur where for somtimes Lord Shiva disguised himself as Kirat.Today, the then Shonitpur is known as Sarahan. Banasur, the ardent devotee of Lord Siva, eldest among the one hundred sons of great oblative demon King Bali and the great grandson of Visnu votary Prahlad, during the Puranic age was the ruler of this princely state.

It is one of the 51 'Shakti Pitha's. According to Hindu legend this is where Sati's ear fell, in the story she was burned in her father Dakesha's secretarial fire because he insulted her spouse lord Shiva. All over north India there are ancient temples dedicated to a part of the Goddess.

Due to Usha-Anirudh affairs Lord Krishna fought here with him and in this battle Lord Siva stood against the former.The legend goes that head of the defeatd king Banasur was buried in front of the entry gate now marked as a raised platform to the first courtyard. Reaching a few steps up from the road to this paved courtyard pilgrims enter into a different world. After Banasur, Pradyuman the incarnation of cupid and the son of Lord Krishna became the Ruler of this Kingdom. Since then this Kingdom was governed uninterruptedly by the descendants of this dynasty till the end of the princely states in independent India.In the State capital this ruling family got constructed a splendid temple palace complex and recognised mothergoddess Bhimakali as the presiding deity of the ruling house.

According to another legend, the goddess was consecrated earlier in the wooden stick of a sage Bhimgiri. Another hearsay about the manifestation of the goddess is reported to the Daksha-Yajna incident when the ear of the Sati fell at this place and became a place of worship as a Pitha - Sthan. Presently in the form of a virgin the icon of this eternal goddess is consecrated at the top storey of the new building. Below that storey the goddess as Parvati, the daughter of Himalaya is enshrined as a divine consort of Lord Siva. Another three temples in this complex are dedicated to Lord Raghunathji, Narsinghji at and Patal Bhairva Ji - the guardian deity.


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Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist  : Bhimakali Temple,the silver gate (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist  : Bhimakali Temple (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist  : Bhimakali Temple (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist  : Bhimakali Temple

Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan
Shri Bhima Kali Temple at Sarahan submitted by motist

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