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| Large number of devotees thronged to Mata Chanchlo Devi temple | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Apr 6: Large number of devotees from the nearby towns and villages of Himachal Pardesh and Punjab states turned up to pay their obeisance to Mata Katyani the sixth incarnation of Maa Shakti at sixteenth century old historical fort temple of Mata chanchlo Devi at Basohli.
Mata Chanchlo Devi temple is situated on a hillock situated in the middle of ten kilometer stretch of land. The Godess is also the Kul Devi of the natives of Basohli, Gurdaspur and Chamba. According to the age old tradition the newly wedded couples only enter their home only after offering prayers in the temple.
That is the reason the newly wedded couples, expecting mothers and the newly born babies are brought in the temple with band Baja and pomp and show.
It is the belief that Godess Canchlo Devi grants everything which the devotees aspire for. Many patients suffering from skin disorders, issue less couples, suffering from contagious diseases gets favorable results. It is true that Basohli and areas around it never faced any natural calamity like famine, epidemic, floods, earthquakes and landslides so far. Mata Chanchlo Devi temple is not only a holy shrine but a beautiful tourist spot which is situated at a place which is surrounded by the RSD lake water from three sides.
The shrine needs the attention of the tourism department for its development into a religious tourism. |
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