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Mahalakshmi Temple (also known as Ambabai Mandir) is an important Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Mahalakshmi, who is worshipped by locals as Ambabai.Goddess Mahalakshmi is the consort of Lord Vishnu and it is customary among Hindus to visit Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, Kolhapur Mahalakshmi Temple and Padmavathi Temple as a yatra (pilgrimage).
The Mahalaxmi (also known as Ambabai) Temple situated in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, is one of the 18 Maha Shakti Peethas listed in skanda puran, and one of 52 Shaktipeeths according to various Puranas of Hinduism. According to these writings, a Shakti Peetha is a place associated with Shakti, the Goddess of power.
Dhakeshwari Temple (now relocated at Dhakeswari Mata Temple) During the 1947 partition, Hindu temples were attacked and vandalised in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and West Pakistan, so the temple priest secretly bought the main idol of Dhakeshwari to Kolkata, West Bengal in India to a wealthy Bengali Hindu family and established a temple in ...
Shri Mahalakshmi Temple, Kolhapur, Kolhapur District [5] Mata Renuka Devi Temple, Mahur, Nanded district [6] Shri Saptashrungi Temple, Vani, Nashik district [7] [8] Shri Tulja Bhavani Temple, Tuljapur, Osmanabad district [9] Shri Shani Temple, Shani Shingnapur, Ahmednagar district [10] [11] Shri Khandoba Temple, Jejuri, Pune district [12] [13]
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The Mahalaxmi Temple as seen from the Arabian Sea. Mahalaxmi Temple is a Hindu temple, dedicated to Mahalakshmi the central deity of Devi Mahatmyam, located in Mumbai, India. It is one of the most famous temples of the city of Mumbai. The temple was built in 1831 by Dhakji Dadaji (1760–1846), a Hindu merchant. [1]
The festival is now celebrated as traditional event where a procession is carried out with Mahalaxmi placed in a palkhi and followed by a young unmarried girl cutting a pumpkin to commemorate the killing of the demon Kolhasur by Mahalaxmi Ambabai. [15] Temblai hill hosts a fair in the temple complex that has 15000–20000 pilgrims.
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