HARNESHWAR MAHADEV DAM( PAZAR TALAO) ( Shankar Bhagat)

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  A tale about establishment temple of god Mahadev:- Long ago a poor agriculturist from Yadav family was working at shikhar shingapur ,Taluka Baramati, District Pune to landlord farmer for survival of his family. He was a devotee Lord Shiv called Somaya.Lord Shiv worshiped that person, then that person requestesd Lord to come his village, Harani, Taluka Purandar, District Pune which nearly 30 kilometers from shingapur . Lord Mahadev ( Shiv )told the devotee to build his temple at such a place that he ( Mahadev )can see his temple of Shikhar Shinganapur located in Satara distrct nearly 90 kilometers from Harani.There is already ancient open temple of Mahadev in village Harani which is now called as Old Mahadev. The devotee called Bhakt, Bhagat requested Lord to stay on a hill , he accepted the request. But it was a place where already godess Haranai was staying. She anoyed and tried to leave the hill but Lord Mahaedv tried to stop her but she disapeared in the earth immediately.There are footprints of godess Haranai on the rock of the hill.Her small temple is also established on the top of the hill. The hill is called hill of Mahadev ( Mahadevacha Dongar.) Threr are about 10 decendent families of that devotee, they are called as Bhagat.Every year one family Bhagat has right to do service of god.The bhagat or his any family member washes the Pind and ling of Lord Mahadev every day. There are two lingas in the pind, one of god Mahadev and other of godess Parvati. There are also small other temples on the hill. There are two temples of Lord Bali at the foot of the hill. there are five prestgious Kawadees ( manachya kawadee) 1 bhagtachi kavad 2 gaikwadchi kavad 3 nanachi kavad 4 sutarachi kavd 5 malavarchi kavd and other about 20 small kawadees of every big family called kul or wada. Ordinerily one person of every famly is server of kawad called kawadya.On Ekadasi ,the first day fair, there is bath of kawad. The kawad is lifted by 6 kawadyas, 3 to front side and 3 to back side.Music of Halagi and daff is played by a person who is primarily held from Matang community, there may be other halagiwala daffwala.The kawad climbs the hill by tieing the strong rope to the kawad, other peoples help to pull the rope.Five rounds (pradakshinas) are done by the kawad,then water from the verticle bronz pot (gadava having capacity about 30 to 50 liters)is spred on the pind of Mahadev from outside of the temple or some devotee prefer to go inside the temple. On fourth day , the all kawadees go the river Nira to bath and bring the water to bath the god Mahadev.On the route of river, there Laptalwadi where peoples of Laptalwadi offer the tea or sarbat to all the devotes. All kawadyas do bath in the river, bath is also done by the kawad except her shid which is covered by clothes called patakaas.There is arti of Lord Ganesh after bath. Then kawad is lifted to go to Mahadev.There is music of halagi and daff.During the return journy, the meal of Zunka and Bhakri (roti) of jowar or bajra is given to all the devotee from the respective kawad owners. The kawadees come in the village about 3 to 4 pm.in Harani. The water is thrown to the godess Kalubai, god Bhairavnath, godess Tukai ,Kanhabai, god Hanuman during the Pradakshina. During dance, there is also race to pull or to push the kawad between front three kawadees and rear three kawadees for fun.After tiring, the race is stopped. the d During going to Mahadev, there is system to touch the body by kawadya other person alongwith kawad. Some persons may prefer sleep on the earth , then body touched by leg of all six kawadyaa in faith to avoid accidents and long life. In the evening, all kawadees go the Mahadev to offer water of river Nira.Kawadees halt there on the hill. Then after midnight of the fourth day i.e. early in the morning of fifth day about 2-3 am , all the kawadees come down in the village. There is ceremony called varat with Dhol Lezim sound and dance. On this fifth day, there programme of tamashaa till afternoon. After tamashaa, at the evening, there is programme of wrestling. The wrestlers from nearby villages come to play. This ends upto 7 pm. There is prize to winners. Sometimes there is draw of competition, then prize is distributed equally. In such a way fair is finished. After fair 5 days , there is programme of fulfillment of navas starts. Navas is a method to offer god certain thing after fulfillment of the demand from god. In village Harani, the devotee may offer the god that, if his particular demand is fulfilled he will give meal of Puran Poli to all the villagers. The navas may be of one kawad or two or five kawadees. Water of river Nira or from Mahabaleshwar or river Krishna Dhom is offered. After fulfillment of demand from Lord Mahadev, the particular person who prayed for his demand does all the expenditure of kawad alongwith devotees to go river, meal,etc. The navas is fulfilled except Monday and Amavashya. Written by Mr.rahul yadav - Harani on 03 rd jan , 2011.

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