Mandir 1

Title – Rajapara Tataniya dharawali aayi Khodiyar’s shrine

Location: Rajapara, Khodiyar Mandir. 16 kms. from Bhavnagar on Bhavnagar-Shihor (Rajkot road) highway.
Description – This is Khodiyar Maa’s main shrine. It is of both historic and religious significance.

Nearest town: Bhavnagar (16 kms.)
Nearest railhead: Khodiyar Mandir railway station (14kms. from Bhavnagar railway station)
Nearest airport: Bhavnagar airport (40 kms.)
Indian airlines, Jet airways and Air Deccan flies to Bhavnagar from Mumbai everyday (Fare: Rs. 1,700 to Rs.3,400 approx.)
www.jetairways.com

Route from Mumbai Mumbai to Bhavnagar via Vadodara, Tarapur square on road.
650kms.
It takes about 15 hours by road

By train:

Route from Ahmedabad 4.5 hours by road Ahmedabad to Bhavnagar via Vallabhipur Approx. 185 kms.

For more details check www.indianrail.gov.in

Year of establishment: 1800 A.D.

Accommodation provided by trust in the temple premises.
Namely 9 rooms in dharamshalas, 5A/C, 4 Non-A/C, 3 dormitory halls of 15 beds capacity, Rest house (100 men + 100 women),
facility of lapsi for prasad, 1 rasoighar and 1 havanshala.
Tel.: 91-2846-223244 (Mandir)
Tel.: 91-278-2425163 (Trust office in Bhavnagar)

For history of this shrine read chapter 8 of Mataji’s story

Mandir 2

Title- Matel

Location: Matel, near Vakaner, Rajkot. Description – There is a lake next to the temple called, Matel dhara The entire Matel town continues to use the lake water for their consumption and domestic usage without filtering it or any other sort of treatment. There is a trishul at the temple that keeps growing by a grain-size every year.

Nearest town: Rajkot (42kms.) Nearest railhead: Rajkot railway station Nearest airport: Rajkot

Route from Rajkot 30kms. to Wakaner and 12kms. from Wakaner

Route from Chotila: 25 kms. to Wakaner and 12 kms. from Wakaner to Matel

Mumbai to Wankaner

For more details check www.indianrail.gov.in

Jet airways flies you twice daily to Rajkot from Mumbai
www.jetairways.com

Rajkot

Ahmedabad to Wakaner: 190 kms. by road. 12 kms. from Wakaner.

Year of establishment: 1400A.D.

For history of this shrine read chapter 7 of Mataji’s story

Mandir 3

Title- Galdhara

Location: Dhari dam (Gir forest)

Description – This is the oldest shrine of Khodiyar Maa.

Nearest town: Amreli
Nearest railhead: Bhavnagar
Nearest airport: Bhavnagar

Route from Mumbai:

Dhari is at a distance of about 5 to 6 hours from Bhavnagar.
Galdhara is at a distance of 7kms. from Dhari.
You get schuttle auto rickshaws from Dhari every half an hour to take you to the temple.

Mumbai to Bhavnagar

For more details check www.indianrail.gov.in

Route from Amreli:
42 kms. by road on its way to Tulsishyam.

Year of establishment: unknown (believed to be 700A.D.)

It is believed to be the oldest shrine of Khodiyar Maa. It is said that Maa Khodiyar used to emerge from the Dhari lake to play ‘Chaupat’ with the ancestor of the mahants of Galdhara, Shri Sajuma.

Mandir 4

Title - Aiyavej

Location: Palitana dam
Description – This shrine of Khodiyar Maa has a peculiar miracle associated with it. The temple has a neem tree near it. The leaves of branches that spread over the temple are sweet in taste (contrary to the nature of neem leaves). Whereas the ones that spread elsewhere taste bitter. This is a miracle of Khodiyar Maa that sweetens the neem leaves. It tells us what Khodiyar maa’s bhakti can do to her followers.

Nearest town: Palitana
Nearest railhead: Bhavnagar
Nearest airport: Bhavnagar

Route from Mumbai:
Mumbai to Bhavnagar

Air Deccan flies you everyday to Bhavnagar (11:35am)
Jet airways flies you everyday to Bhavnagar (07:10am)
Palitana is 43 kms. from Bhavnagar

Year of establishment: 1000A.D.

For history of this shrine read chapter 6 of Mataji’s story

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