Nira Narsingpur is a village in
Indapur
Indapur is a town and a municipal council in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Indapur is known for Jahagir of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's father and grandfather. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's grandfather Malojiraje died in ...
taluka
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...
of
Pune
Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
district,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
, India.
The confluence of rivers
Bhima
Bhima (, ), also known as Bhimasena (, ), is a hero and one of the most prominent characters in the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. As the second of the five Pandava brothers, Bhima was born to Kunti—the wife of King Pandu—fathered by Vayu, the ...
and
Nira is behind the
Shri Laxmi Narsimha Temple
Shri Laxmi Narsimha Temple (popularly known as Nira Narasimha) (), is one of the oldest Hindu temples dedicated to Narasimha, an avatar of Vishnu, located in Nira Narsingpur, Pune district, Maharashtra. The temple is located at the confluence o ...
. The temple is situated on Pune side of the Pune-Solapur district border also on the common point of three Talukas Madha, Malashiras (both from Solapur district) and Indapur (Pune district). The temple is the Kuldaiwat (Family deity) for a number of Marathi families of different castes.
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Villages in Pune district