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Devihasol, Rajapur taluka, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra · 16.7386°, 73.4321°
A goddess temple in Devihasol village of Rajapur taluka, about 18 km from Rajapur and 380 km from Mumbai, and a regional centre of Devi worship in the Konkan. The article gives no coordinates, so the Wikidata point is used.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The shrine is said to stand where the goddess appeared for a moment before an aged devotee named Palsule Desai and vanished, leaving her footprints inside the mandir; she is also remembered for destroying the demon Vratsaru.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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