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The page behind the cards warms and cools through the day: indigo before light, cream through the morning, gold in the afternoon, rose at the lamp-lighting hour. Nothing you read sits on it, so no word is harder to see at any hour.
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Ganapathi · Raigad, Maharashtra
Shri Varadvinayak Temple, Mahad
Varadvinayak, the giver of boons, with a lamp burning since 1892
GeneralWealth
The temple in short
Deity
Varadvinayak, the giver of boons, with a lamp burning since 1892
Where
Raigad, Maharashtra · 18.83N 73.29E
Usual hours
5 am – 1 pm, 4 pm – 9 pm — hours change with festivals and the season; check before travelling.Were these right when you went?
Grahas
Ketu
Visited for
The fourth Ashtavinayak, where devotees may enter the sanctum themselves. The Nandadeep has burnt without a break for over a century.
Kept for Ketu, one of the nine grahas a temple can be visited for.
Shri Varadvinayak Temple, Mahad, Raigad, Maharashtra. The dot is the town, to about a kilometre — the gazetteer does not hold the gopuram's own coordinates.
Been to this temple? The things that change — whether the hours on this page were
right, whether the sannidhi was open, how long the queue was on a Saturday — are exactly
what no printed source keeps current, and what the next person travelling here needs.
Were the hours right when you went?
Is anything on this page wrong or out of date?
A photograph of the gopuram, the tank, or the notice board
A contribution carries a name, so a reader knows whose account it came from. That is why
it needs an account, and it is the only reason.
Parihaaram is traditional practice, offered for devotion and peace of mind; it is not a guaranteed cure of any condition. Temple hours change with festivals and the season, so check before travelling.