Shri Mahalasa Narayani Temple
Copper-roofed shrine famed for a forty-foot, five-metal lamp tower lit every Sunday night.
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This guide to Shri Mahalasa Narayani Temple in Goa opens with the crowd-pulled chariot of the Mardol jatra, the weeklong festival that fills the streets with thousands of devotees hauling on thick ropes. You'll hear about the six nights before that finale, when the goddess is carried out in different guises, riding the eagle Garuda one evening, an elevated royal seat the next, and a peacock on a third. It also traces who Mahalasa is said to be, an enchantress form the god Vishnu took during the churning of the ocean, and how her idol was smuggled out of a shrine near Verna centuries ago, ahead of soldiers destroying temples along the coast.
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