Temple Details

Golu Devata temple   Almora


About Golu Devata temple

"Golu Devata or Lord Golu is the unbelievable legendary and authentic God of the Kumaun district of Uttarakhand territory of India and is their divinity. 
The Golu Devta Chitai, temple is around 4 km (2.5 mi) from the primary door of Binsar natural life asylum and around 10 km (6.2 mi) from Almora. Novel on Goludev story can read - ""Sanyasi-Yodha"" author Kaustubh anand chandola."

Golu Devata is believed to be as an incarnation of Gaur Bhairav (Shiva), and is loved everywhere throughout the locale and viewed as the distributor of equity by the lovers with extraordinary confidence. 
Truly, he is considered by whom as the overcome child and General of Katyuri lord, Jhal Rai and his mom was Kalinka, and his granddad was Hal Rai and awesome granddad was Hal Rai. Generally the cause of Golu Devata is acknowledged at Champawat. His mom Kalinka is accepted to be the sister of two other nearby gods Harishchand Devjyun (the perfect soul of Raja Harish of the Chands) and Sem Devjyun and both these divinities are regarded as uncles of Ruler Golu. 
Another legend recommends that he was a General in the armed force of Chand ruler, Baz Bahadur (1638– 78), and kicked the bucket showing commendable valor at war, the temple at Chitai was raised in his respect, 8 km (5.0 mi) from Almora city. 
Another legend says that Golu Devta was killed by the ruler of Binsar because of some false uncertainty, and he was decapitated by the lord and his body fell at Gairad at Dana Golu and his head fell at Kaparkhan, close advanced Binsar, a couple of km from Almora. At Dana Golu, there is the first and most old temple of Golu Devta. The most famous tale about Golu discusses a nearby ruler who, while chasing, sent his hirelings to search for water. The hirelings bothered a lady who was asking. The lady, in an attack of outrage, provoked the ruler that he couldn't separate two battling bulls and continued to do as such herself. The lord was extremely awed by this deed and he wedded the woman. At the point when this ruler got a child, alternate rulers, who were envious of her, set a stone in its place and the tyke in a pen and put the pen into the stream. The kid was raised by an angler. At the point when the kid grew up he took a wooden steed to the stream and on being addressed by the rulers he answered that if ladies can bring forth stone then wooden stallions can drink water. At the point when the lord caught wind of this, he rebuffed the liable rulers and delegated the kid, who went ahead to be known as Golu devta.

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