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Aundh, Maharashtra · 17.5420°, 74.3316°
A hilltop goddess temple at Aundh in Satara district that is the family deity of many Marathi households and has twelve major subsidiary shrines across Maharashtra. Its stone deepmala stands about 71 feet, among the tallest in India, and the adjoining Shri Bhavani Museum holds works by Raja Ravi Varma, M. V. Dhurandhar and Henry Moore. In the seventeenth century the priests of Aundh saved the image from invaders by concealing it behind a mosque-like facade.
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 goddess is said to be named from the Marathi call 'Ye Mai' - come, mother - used by Mahalakshmi, Jyotiba of Kolhapur and Rama, and is regarded as the elder sister of Tulja Bhavani.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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