Tap the right rock inside this hillside cave and it rings out like a damru — no myth required, visitors do it themselves and hear it plainly A quick note before anything else, since the name causes real confusion: this is not the same as "Dev Dhank" in Nirmand, Kullu...
Six kilometres out of Hamirpur town, along a road that sees more shepherds than sightseers, stands a two-century-old shrine to a goddess who, according to local memory, once blinded the men who tried to take her away from home There's a particular kind of temple...
At the point where the Beas river meets the Kunah Khad stream, stands a 400-year-old Shiva temple that two different legends claim as their own — one about exiled brothers building through the night, the other about a goddess finally forgiven Most old temples in...
At the highest point in Hamirpur district, where the Sarkaghat road finally stops climbing, sits a hilltop shrine with two competing stories about how it began — one involving a farmer's plough and a stone that bled, the other involving a stolen idol that refused to...
On a bluff above the Beas River, with the Dhauladhar range standing guard in the distance, a Katoch queen once had an entire epic painted across the walls of a Shiva temple — and two centuries, an earthquake, and a great deal of monsoon weather later, enough of it...
Facing the old Chougan grounds of Sujanpur Tira stands a Krishna temple built by a king in memory of his mother — and at its heart, an idol whose flute is said to point the "wrong" way, because one night, according to local memory, the god simply turned it himself...
Ten kilometres from Hamirpur town, on a hillside above the Sarlin road, stands an 88-foot Hanuman keeping watch over a shrine to the planet most people pray to avoid — not because the god is unkind, but because he's said to give exactly what you've earned Not every...
Eight kilometres from Hamirpur town, between two streams that never stop running, sits a Shiva lingam that a local king once tried and failed to carry away — and the temple built, quite literally, around the spot where it refused to move. There's a recurring shape to...
Six kilometres from Hamirpur, on the road to Nadaun, stands the shrine of a goddess who chose her own address — and made sure the king who came looking for her understood he didn't get a vote in the matter. Royal temple legends in Himachal tend to follow a familiar...