(161) Sri Betal Temple Goa India: The Deity known as Shree Vetal or Shree Betal has also other different names such as Khanderao, Khanderaya, Khandoba, Mhalsakant, Malhari, Martand, etc. The historians say that the word Khand is the same as Skand which means Kartikswami. According to this theory, it is concluded that Khandoba is an incarnation of Kartikswami. This theory has been confirmed by eminent historian like Dr. Bhandarkar and Shri Rajwada. Khandoba is also considered as the army chief of Shree Shankara.In regions such as Gomantak, Konkan and Karnataka. Khandoba is also known as Vetal or Betal and is worshipped as one who liberates his devotees from different calamities and protects them from their enemies, By incorporating such a brave Deity in the Shree Ramanath Panchayatan the Mahajans catered for the need of devotees who are in distress Shri Betal temple is a Hindu temple in Amona village in Bicholim taluka in Goa. The presiding deity is Shree Betal worshiped in the form of Worrier Shiva; normally Betal is standing, but during the festival his Idol is made to sit on the Horse back. He is the Gram devata of Amona. Several families as Shinari, Gawas, Fadate, etc. worship him. There is a temple or Betal in a village named as Gorli in Pauri Gharwal district of Uttaranchal. Betal is also the villages Gram Devata This temple also has Shiv Pindi and its foot soldiers. Deity: The temple is dedicated to Purvas Vetal, the warrior god. The deity is also called betal colloquially. Betal: Betal as we know him today shares many features with the Vedic god Rudra, and both Shiva and Rudra are viewed as the same personality in a number of Hindu traditions. Betal the god of the roaring storm, is usually portrayed in accordance with the element he represents as a fierce, destructive deity. The oldest surviving text of Hinduism is the Rig Veda, which is dated to between 1700 and 1100 BC based on linguistic and philological evidence. A god named Rudra is mentioned in the Rig Veda. The name Rudra is still used as a name for Shiva. In RV 2.33, he is described as the Father of the Rudras, a group of storm gods. Furthermore, the Rudram, one of the most sacred hymns of Hinduism found both in the Rig and the Yajur Vedas and addressed to Rudra, invokes him as Shiva in several instances, but the term Shiva is used as an epithet for Indra, Mitra and Agni many times.
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