HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE

Many stories and folklores are revolving around the birth of the Bijasan Mata Temple and various miracles that have been happening since then, have been told through generations. One such famous story is the tale of how the temple was founded. The tale believes that various groups of Nomads or Banjaras used to come to the country many years ago. One such Banjara tribe once was halting in the village named Sultaniya, twelve kilometers from the present plac e of the temple. Lakha Banjara was the head of the tribe. He had an unmarried daughter. She used to graze her herd o f cattle with her family. Many people of the tribe used to take their cattle to the nearby brook in the north to make th em drink water. The daughter of the head however never took her cattle there

The people of the tribe complained to their chief about his daughter's absence. The suspicious father decided to check where the daughter went himself. Th e next day he followed the girl silently, he saw that the girl instead of going to the brook went to a Talai near it, pres ently called Doodhtalai, with her cattle. Once there, the girl removed all her clothes and sat in the Talai, moments aft er the Talai got filled with milk and the cattle started drinking the milk.

The story then believes that the girl coincidently saw her father watching everything in shock. Ashamed the girl aske d mother earth(Prithvi Maa) to take her into her arms and the very next moment the girl disappeared into the earth. A fter some time had passed the girl goddess took one of her hands out of the earth. It is believed that Devi has come o ut of the mother earth at a little distance from Talai and has been taking away the sorrows of her devotees since then.

• HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE