Paddar Machail || chandi mata temple || buddhist gompa || Day 3 ||machail yatra 22

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Goddess Durga, Machail Mata Mandir is a popular Hindu temple in Machail Village in Paddar, Kishtwar. The temple also known as Machail Mata Sthan is set amidst beautiful landscape comprising the green rolling hills, glaciers and tributaries of the Chenab River. The temple is also known as Chandi Mata Shrine as Goddess Durga is also called Chandi.
This Hindu temple is visited by a number of devotees during its popular Machail Yatra or Chhadi Yatra that starts from Chinote in Bhaderwah. A mace or Holi Chhari of Machail Mata is taken out by the devotees from village Chinote Bhaderwah and is taken to Machail, where on the first day of Bhadon (15th or 16th August) every year, the doors of the temple are opened and a grand fair is held. Devotees on their Machail Yatra throng the temple and offer prayers to the goddess and seek her blessings.
History of Machail Mata Temple
Machail Mata Temple was visited by Thakur Kulveer Singh of Bhaderwah, Jammu in 1981. He is credited to start the annual popular Chhadi Yatra' (holy mace) which has now believed to be the second-largest pilgrimage in the Jammu Region as it is visited by thousands of Hindu devotees.
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