Ekalavya Temple

Sthala katha — the traditional account

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.

Ekalavya, self-taught and found to outshine Arjuna, cut off his right thumb when Dronacharya asked for it as gurudakshina, and the temple stands where the thumb is said to have been buried.