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High medieval · Hindu · India
Garjiya Devi Temple
Garjiya, near Ramnagar, Nainital district, Uttarakhand · 29.4940°, 79.1412°
Garjiya Devi, held to be a form of ParvatiUndeterminedNagara
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Devi shrine on a rock rising about sixty feet out of the Kosi river on the edge of Corbett National Park, north of Ramnagar. It holds a ninth-century black granite Lakshmi-Narayana image and draws thousands of pilgrims at Kartik Purnima.