Karni Mata : Deshnok 🚩 Bikaner : चूहे करते हैं मनोकामना पूरी

Karni Mata (Hindi: करणी माता, or Bhagwati Karniji Maharaj), known by various names such as Bhagwati, Mehaai, Jagdamba, and Kiniyani is a Hindu Goddess of power and victory described as a warrior sage, who lived between 14th and 16th centuries in Western Rajasthan. Karni Mata is the tutelary deity of the Rajputs and Charans of northwestern India. As a Sagati, she is also worshipped as an incarnation of Hinglaj or Durga.She is the official deity of the royal families of Bikaner and Jodhpur. Karniji played an important role in shaping the history of the region. She is intimately associated with the establishment of the Rajput hegemony in the region. With her blessings, Rao Jodha and Rao Bika founded the kingdoms of Jodhpur and Bikaner. At the request of the Maharajas of Bikaner and Jodhpur, she laid the foundations of Bikaner Fort and Mehrangarh Fort, the two most important forts in the region. She lived an ascetic life and was widely revered during her lifetime. Indian Army troops from the Marwar region also regard Karni Mata as their patron deity.

The most famous of the Karni Mata temples is the Karni Mata Temple of Deshnoke where the temple and surrounding Oran land are a sacred sanctuary for all the living beings and no one is to be harmed.[6] In Rajasthan, Blackbucks are considered sacred as Karni Mata is supposed to protect them.
Of all the temples I have visited in India, the temple of Karni Mata in Bikaner, Rajasthan is by far the strangest. You could almost call it bizarre. Rajasthan itself is one of the most colourful States in India and offers many unique sights to the tourist but the temple of Karni Mata is unique. It lies in a little village called Deshnoke, 30 miles south of Bikaner. The latter along with Jaisalmer is one of the famous desert towns of Rajasthan. The town itself is pretty crowded so we had decided to stay at a beautiful heritage hotel called Gajner Palace out of town. One of the important reasons for staying in Bikaner was to visit the goddess – Karni Devi. The story of this goddess is quite fascinating.

On September 20th, 1387 a baby girl was born to a family of Charans in a village called Suvap in Jodhpur district. Her father was known as Mehaji. Charans are the traditional ballad singers of Rajasthan but every state has its own unique ballad singers who go by different names. Their work was go from village to village singing the ancient ballads taken from the great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha.

Mehaji’s wife had given birth to six girls before she conceived Karniji. In those days the birth of a girl was a sorrowful event and when his wife conceived for the seventh time, the father was very anxious that this one would be a son. In the eighth month he engaged two maids to look after his wife and see to her safe delivery but even after ten months she showed no signs of labour! One of the maids was frightened and ran away but the second one remained. The parents were naturally most worried and did not know what to do. One night the mother had a vivid dream in which the goddess Durga appeared to her holding the trident in her hands. She informed her that she need not be afraid and that a portion of her effulgence had already been conceived in her womb and that she would be born at the twenty-first month without any problem. Though the parents were quite distressed, there was nothing much they could do about this since it was the will of the goddess. Traditionally the Charans are worshippers of Shakti, or the Divine Mother mainly in her form as Durga. Eventually the baby was born on the 7th day of the bright fortnight in the month of Aswin – Sept/Oct. She was called Ridhubai. It was only much later after she performed her first miracle that she was renamed, Karni.







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