Bambleshwari Temple is a

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, located at

Dongargarh Dongargarh is a town and municipality in Rajnandgaon District in the state of Chhattisgarh, India and the site of the Bambleshwari Temple and Chandragiri Jain Temple. A prominent pilgrim destination in Rajnandgaon District, the city lies about ...

in Rajnandgaon district,

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. It is on a hilltop of 1600 feet. This temple is referred as ''Badi Bambleshwari''. Another temple at ground level, the ''Chhotti Bambleshwari'' is situated about 1/2 km from the main temple complex. These temples are revered by lakhs of people of Chhattisgarh who flock around the shrine during the

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s of Kavar (during

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) and Chaitra (during

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). There is tradition of lighting

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during Navaratris here.

Location

Dongargarh is 107 kilometers from

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, via

Bhilai Bhilai is a city in Durg district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in eastern central India. Along with its twin-city Durg, the urban agglomeration of Durg-Bhilai Nagar has a population of more than a million, making it the second-larges ...

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and

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. Dongargarh does not exactly fall on the massive Mumbai highway, a diversion some 25 km before, from the Calcutta- Calcutta-Mumbai National Highway (NH #6) leads the vehicle through lush green vegetation and mild forests on a narrow winding single road. Dongargarh is 40 km from district headquarters Rajnandgaon and is well connected with buses from Rajnandgaon. Dongargarh as well as trains. It is on the

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main line at a distance of 200 km from

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and 100 km from Raipur. The nearest airport is at

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. The rope-way in the hill on which the temple is located, is another attraction to the tourists in the city. It is very popular with the tourists as it is the only rope-way that has been set up in Chhattisgarh state.

Legend

Arieal View from Maa Bamleshwari Devi Temple on a hilltop

''Dongar'' means mountains in Chhattisgarhi language and

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while ''Garh'' means fort. The legend goes that around 2200 years ago, Raja Veersen, a local king, was childless and upon the suggestions of his royal priests performed puja to the gods. Within a year, the queen gave birth to a son whom they named Madansen. Raja Veersen considered this a blessing of Lord

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and

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and constructed a temple here..In the temple of Dongargarh, king Vikramaditya went to commit suicide but Devi Bamleshwari appeared and stopped him from doing it. For reaching the top, there are total 1000 steps that lead to the temple.

Ropeway accident

On 29 February 2016 in a ropeway mishap, a woman was killed and three others were injured. On 18 February 2021, a labourer died in a similar accident. but both the accident happened in old ropeway.

Online facilities

"The temple provides the facility of Online Ropeway Ticket Booking and Online Jyoti Kalash Booking
Live Darshan (Video streaming) of Both Temples

Online Booking Portal for Ropeway Tickets and Jyotikalash

Gallery

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References

External links

Official Website of Bamleshwari Temple

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