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  1. Dear Deepak

    I appreciate your attempt to give information on Tarasar (Tarkeshwar) Temple through your website.

    But the history told by you is not the actual story, this history may be pick by you from the information available on net or information provided by the ashram build by the toli village trust.

    The place is known by the name of TARASAR by the local people, which was publicized as Tarkeshwar by these toli people. A person named Haridas Bharti of Toli comes to this place and requested Gweelani Village Pradhan to make him jogi of the temple, as Gweelani Village headed the Temple Committee and later on made a Dharamshall of his own trust in the premises.

    If you want to know the actual story of Tarasar you may visit Gweelani or any nearby village and ask from the elderly people, then they will tell you that Tarasar is of Gweelani village because Padiyar caste peoples ancestors saved idol and due to this people worship these ancestors in the form of Saundh Padiyar Devta at the entrance of the Tarkeshwar.

    The actual story is started from the period of 52 garhis in garhwal, somewhere near kotdwara an idol of Lord Shiva emerged from the earth and other community (muslims) are defaming the idol and give open challenges to all hindus, if you have guts then take this idol. Many garhi chiefs try to take the idol but fail. Then Padiyar peoples take oath to bring this idol at any cost. The planned to rescue the idol by giving supreme sacrifice of their life for lord shiva. They attack the place where idol are kept for display and as planned one person take the idol and run toward his garhi and rest block route till the last blood in their body. All the padiyar soldiers given their life to fulfil their commitment, only one person is able to survive because he has the responsibility to bring the idol safely.

    Due to this supreme sacrifice people of nearby 84 villages consider them as “Padiyar Devta” and worship them before entering in the tarasar premises. I would like to bring to your kind notice a fact that remaining of a Garhi is exist in upper hills between ChoukliyaKhal & GundalKhet. It is a proof that a small community of warriors may be live in this garhi in ancient times and they will bring & establish the idol of lord shiva in the pious environment of Tarkeshwar which is in their control. The idol fixed in the main temple is the original idol rest are fabricated, even mata mandir was built only two decades before.

    1. अजीत जी हमारे पोस्ट पर आपकी प्रतिक्रिया के लिए बेहद धन्यवाद, आपने ताड़केश्वर मंदिर के बारे में जो जानकारी दी है वह हमे देखने को नहीं मिली अगर आप अपनी इस लेख का सोर्स बताएं तो हमे बेहद खुशी होगी उसे अपने लेख के साथ जोड़ने पर।
      धन्यवाद ,
      दीपक बिष्ट

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