.png){kind=logo}
What's unusual: It's a rat temple!
Karni Mata Temple is situated in a small town of Deshnok, which is about 30 kms south of Bikaner, Rajasthan. Dedicated to Goddess Karni, an incarnation of Maa Durga, the temple is also called the rat temple. According to certain mythologies, when Goddess Karni's youngest son drowned, she asked Yama (the god of death) to bring him back to life. Lord Yama denied her request. Thus, being an incarnation of Goddess Durga, she brought her son back to life. She then proclaimed that none of her family members would die and they would in fact incarnate in the form of rats.
The temple dates back to 15th century and today, it houses around 20,000 rats that are fed, protected and worshipped. The leftovers are offered as Prasadas to the visitors.
Tourist Attractions Places ( 1-5 of 10 )
Reader's comments(12)
1: There is another temple which is not listed here.... It is Til Bhandeswar temple...in Varanasi city. It's unusual thing is it is said that the linga of lord shiva in this temple is increasing every year by one til.it's radius is now a huge big than many a years later and it is also established by lord bishnu.
Posted by: Arpan Singh - 17 Jun, 2016
2: Can someone plz provide me the contact details of the authorities or anybody I can call to get shooting permissions in the Temple.
Posted by: Fahmida - 25 Nov, 2015
4: Interesting article. Just wanted to add a temple that is overlooked most of the times. Its a very rare temple due to the unique placements of the shrines. Its the Kasivisvesvaran temple located in the Lakkundi village, Karnataka. The uniqueness of the temple is that the shrines of God Shiva and Sun God are facing each other. In addition to that, the Sun God is facing west instead of facing east. This is the only temple where the Sun god faces the west.
http://www.ishtadevata.com/kasivisvesvara-temple-2.html
http://www.ishtadevata.com/kasivisvesvara-temple-2.html
Posted by: Neelakantan - 21 Jul, 2015
5: How can you miss out on Hanumanji temple in Allahabad, this temple is the only temple in the world were Hanumanji is in sleeping avtar..which depicts that Hanumanji found the place so relaxing and comfortable that he slept here.
Posted by: Achint - 12 Jul, 2013
6: Yeah it is in the Mahatirtha Prayag...it's name is palti hanuman. But your last part information was wrong, the actual cause is said that while returning having sanjeevani buti with the parbat for lord laxman he fell down in that place only. Thank you.
Arpan Singh replied to: Achint post - 17 Jun, 2016
7: There is another one in Maharashtra too.
Sachin Shah replied to: Achint post - 04 Nov, 2014
8: R u sure?? Where it is?? Kindly give the details...
Arpan Singh replied to: Sachin Shah post - 17 Jun, 2016
9: every year during monsoon river ganga comes to the temple and make Hanumanji bath....very unsual fact but true
achint replied to: Achint post - 12 Jul, 2013
10: One more to make it in the list is Lord Kartiks (ganesha's brother) temple at Panchgani.
Posted by: ravine hotel - 09 Jul, 2013
11: Dear Concerned,
In aforesaid article/news it is written that KAL BHAIRAV Temple is located in Ujjain (Uttar-Pradesh). Request you to please correct it as the temple is situated in holy city VARANASI (Uttar-Pradesh). Hope you will rectify this.
In aforesaid article/news it is written that KAL BHAIRAV Temple is located in Ujjain (Uttar-Pradesh). Request you to please correct it as the temple is situated in holy city VARANASI (Uttar-Pradesh). Hope you will rectify this.
Posted by: Manohar Singh - 07 Jul, 2013
12: There are so many temples in many other cities are missed in the above article and it is not fair to simply restrict to just above temples
Concerned replied to: Manohar Singh post - 19 Jul, 2013
