Kaathla Mata Mandir - Snarlahar

Nice place to visit

Superb location silent and beautiful place

This is a very old temple of durga mata

Very good place, give peace to mind

Nice place I realy enjoy such place

Nice Place

This is a hindu temple of goddess Kathla Mata. This place and temple is highly spiritual place. This is at good height which gives a splendid view of near by hills and forest. Also this temple gives a very good view salol town. Old temple has been shifted to the new premises near by. Which is a newly constructed building. This temple is 500mts away from main road. Local community have a good faith in the goodess.

Author Abha Chauhan identifies Vaishno Devi with the power of Vishnu as well as the incarnation of Lakshmi.[1] Author Pintchman identifies with great goddess Mahadevi and says Vaishno Devi contains all powers and is associated with the entire creation as Mahadevi.[2] Pintchman further states that, "Pilgrims identify Vaishno Devi with Durga (a form of Lakshmi)— whome Punjabis (and others) also name Seranwali, "the Lion-rider"— more than with any other goddess".[3] Some Hindus also consider Vaishno Devi as the future bliss of Kalki and born as Satyabhama and will be born as Rama wife of Kalki. The Appearance of Vaishno Devi to Shridhar and the story of Bhaironath It is said that Bhaironath, a famous Tantric, saw the young Vaishno Devi at an agricultural fair and fell madly in love with her. Vaishno Devi fled into Trikuta hills to escape his amorous advances, later she assumed the form of Mahakali and cut off his head with her sword in a cave.[4] Professor and author Tracy Pintchman narrates the story as, "About nine hundred years ago Vaishno Devi appeared in the form of a young girl and commanded a Brahmin named Shridhar from the village Hansali (next to present day Katra) to hold a feast (bhandara) for local people near Bhumika stream. At the time of feast, Bhaironath, a disciple of Goraknath, appeared and demanded meat and liquor. But Vaishno Devi told him he would get only vegetarian food, since this was a Brahmin's feast. Seeing her, Bhaironath lusted after her. To escape him, she ran away stopping at various places on the trail up the Trikuta mountain. There places are now known as Banganga (Ganga river emerged from arrow), Charan Paduka (Holy footprints), Ardha Kunwari —the place where she is said to have remained for nine months in a cave, — and finally at Bhavan, the cave that is now known as her home. There taking the form of Chamundi (a form of Kali), she beheaded Bhaironath. His body held at the entrance to the cave, and his head landed further up the mountain at a place where a Bhaironath temple is now located. Bhaironath then repented, and the goddess granted him further salvation. In so doing, however, she laid down the condition that unless pilgrims coming for her darshana did not also get his darshana— that is, darshana of his head— then their pilgrimage would not be fruitful. Vaishno Devi later manifested into 3 small rocks (pindikas) and stays there to the present day. Shridhar began doing puja to the pindikas at the cave, and his descendants continue to do so even today".[5] A view of Vaishno Devi Bhawan Professor and author Manohar Sajnani says, According to Hindu beliefs, the original abode of Vaishno Devi was Ardha Kunwari, a place about halfway between Katra town and the cave. She meditated in the cave for 9 months