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Bironkhal, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand · 29.8621°, 79.0693°
A Kali shrine on a 2,090 m ridge in the Bironkhal block of Pauri Garhwal, rebuilt around 2010 with a lotus-bud shikhara and run by the Garhwal-Almora Kali Mandir Vikas Samiti, a cooperative of about a dozen surrounding villages.
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.
A Badiyaari shepherd is said to have been told in a vision to raise a shrine, and to have piled up rocks into a mound on the mountain top.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Modern
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