Pakistan - Hinglaj
Matagee Temple Balochistan
Hinglaj Matagee Temple Balochistan Pakistan
A trip to the Terath (Pilgramage) of past gods. This sacred place of pilgrimage for
Hindus specially the devotees of Aadh Shakti Devi Maata is situated in
the mountain cave "HINGLAJ" on the river bank of "HINGHOL" at the tail
of Kheerthar mountains called Kanraj in tehsil Lyari of Balochistan province of Pakistan.
It is considered one of the famous and largest TEERATHS Pilgramage of Subcontinent.
It is about 170 miles 250 KM from Karachi. One has to go by road on main Karachi-Quetta
Highway (RCD) up to zero point for about 75 miles. Then by road towards west through Lyari
town and then to Signal fauji camp stop,crosssing Aghore River. Then through Goongi River
and last stop to "Asha Pura" sarai (INN).
There are worship places of GANESH
DEVA,MATA KALI,GURU GORAKH NATH DOONI,BRAHAM KUNDH,TIR KUNDH,MAHA KALI KUNDA,GURU NANAK
KHARAO,RAM JAROKHA BETHAK,ANEEL KUNDH ON CHORASI MOUNTAIN and on the way CHANDRA GOOP ,
KHARI RIVER and AGHORI PUJA.
During the Treata Yuga, in the days of PERUSHURAM AVATAR , Rishi Dadechi narrated this
story. In the TATARI MONGOL CLAN there lived a king named VICHATAR. He had two sons HINGOL
and SUNDER. They belonged to Suria Dynasty of Kshtrya class.They were brave but cruel and
lived luxurious lives. Their empire was adjacent to China. The people who lived in these
countries belonged to Chandra Dynasty of Kshtrya Class and were followers of LORD SHIVA.
Prince sunder attacked the neighbouring countries and killed thousands of people and
looted gold ornaments and demanded royalties from them. The people then prayed to Lord
SHIVA to save them from the cruel prince by fulfilling their prayers and request , Lord
SHIVA granted a boon where GANESH DEVA killed the demon prince Sunder in three days. After
the death of Prince Sunder , his brother Hingola became furious and swore to take avenge
his brother's death.
He underwent penance and by his austerity for years he received the
boon that no living being in the three worlds could kill him with any sort of weapon and
his death will only occur at a place where Sunlight does not penetrate. He thereafter
defeated other kings, extended his reign with terror and cruelty. He referred to himself
as HINGOl DEVA.
People became very sick and tired in his reign and they performed great
Yagna Hawan in their Devi Mata Temple in order to get rid of HIngol , the King. Devi Mata
appeared and promised to kill Hingol.Hingol came in SATA DEEP, presently located in
Balochistan and went inside a dark cave where Devi Mata with her wooden weapon TRISHUL
killed him. In his last moments of life hingol prayed to Devi Mata that in future this
place may be called after his name as HINGAL TEERATH and so the place came to be known.
According to another story in the PURAN , once SATI the consort of LORD SHIVA and the
daughter of King Daksha was annoyed with her father for not inviting LORD SHIVA in the
ceremony of Yagna. She jumped to in Agni Havan Kunda and burnt herself. LORD SHIVA then
became furious and came and took the dead body of SATI and started roaming in all the
dishas and there was danger created all over the world. Hence LORD VISHNU cut the body of
SATI in pieces with his Sudarshan Chakra in order to cool down LORD SHIVA's anger.
The
pieces of SATI'S body fell at different places; the head fell at KUNRAJ mountain and was
so called as HINGLAJ TEERATH of SHAKT DEVI MATA. 50 pieces at different places and were
known as DEVI TEERATH ASTHANS also by differant names. There is no doubt that HINGLAJ
TEERATH is very old and remained famous even during Mahabharat period when King Jaidrath
of Sindh constructed Devi temples. When King Sikander of Yoonan, Europe when invaded
India, he fought with King Balram at Bali Kot Fort and stayed at Hingol River. At that
time, yatri devotees were performing HInglaj Yatra and they were safe.
Samrat Vikramjeet,
the king of India also visited Hinglaj as yatr after conquering all of India. Raja
Todarmal of Mughal regime also visited this teerath. Other Rajput rajas like Bihari Mal,
Raja Bhij Singh, Raja Madhoo Singh, Raja Jagat Singh of Jaipur, Ram Devji Pir of Rajasthan
with his Army chief Agva Laloo Jakhraj also came to Hinglaj for yatra, Dada Mekhan the
great saint of Gujarat also came to Hinglaj Teerath and he was called first KAPRI of Mata
and after this all the Yatris are called KAPRIS. Kapris wear mala of Thumra in their neck
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