HINGLAJ MATA
The cave temple of Mata Hinglaj is situated in a narrow valley in a remote, mountainous area of Lari tehsil in Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is one of the fifty-one Shaktipeeths dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati, the temple is built on the western bank of the Hingol River in Hinglaj, Baluchistan, Pakistan, at the end of a series of Kherathar hills in the Makran Desert. Here this goddess is also called Hinglaj Devi or Hingula Devi. This temple is also known as Nani temple.
The temple is built in a small natural cave where there is a very ancient clay altar where the small size stone is worshiped as a replica of Hinglaj Mata. The rock is carved from vermilion, which is called Hingula in Sanskrit, due to which it is also called Hinglaj.
According to a story of the origin of Mata Hinglaj, when Shiva, disgruntled at the disconnection of Sati, started visiting the three locos with the body of Sati, then Lord Vishnu divided the body of Sati into 51 blocks where the parts of Sati fell. The place is called Shaktipeeth. The head of Sati Mata had her head dropped here after Lord Vishnu was cut off from the Sudarshan Chakra.
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