Ambica Devi Temple

Ambika Devi temple, Nagar Kot, KangrannKangra district in Himachal Pradesh lies along an east-west axis, some ninety miles long and thirty miles wide, with Jalandhara (or Jullundhur) on the south and the Satluj, Ravi and Beas rivers in the hills to the north. In Sanskrit accounts, notably the Mahabharata, Kangra appears as the ancient kingdom of Trigarta, while archaeological findings from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and from the Iron Age suggest even older human settlement in the region. Kangra has stone inscriptions in Kharoshti script dating from the third to the first century BCE, and archaeologists have found copper and silver coins of Kushana and Indo-Greek origin, and from the Delhi Sultanate.nnThe Nagar Kot (or, city-fortress) of Kangra was the capital of the Katoch kings of Kangra until Mahmud Ghazni’s invasion of 1009 AD, which ended Kangra’s isolation and made it a province of the rulers of Delhi. Kangra and the Nagar Kot were conquered by Mahmud-bin-Tughlaq in 1337, by Firoze Shah Tughlaq in 1351, and by Jahangir in 1622, all of whom left behind governors to rule in their name. In the late-eighteenth century, Nagar Kot fell into the hands of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh, until the British ousted them in the 1820s. While the fortress had survived nearly a millennium of siege and warfare, much of it was finally brought down in the earthquake of 1905.nnSome four miles from the modern town of Kangra, Nagar Kot stands on a hilltop that rises sharply between two rivers: the Ban Ganga and the Manjhi. On another hilltop across the Manjhi river is the temple of Jayanti Devi, which by some accounts pre-dates Nagar Kot. The fort has two impressive defensive walls on one side and a sheer cliff on the other side, besides six fortified gateways (Ranjit Singh Darwaza, Ahari Darwaza, Amiri Darwaza, Jahangiri Darwaza, Andheri Darwaza and Darshani Darwaza) through which one must pass to reach the palace on the hilltop.nnAmong the palace buildings that have partly survived are offices of state, magazine, mosque, gallows, living quarters and the remains of two splendid temples: The Ambika Devi temple and a Jain temple with a statue of Mahavira, both of which date from the time of the Katoch rulers of Kangra (9-10 century CE). What is remarkable is that these temples with their exquisite craftsmanship remained untouched during more than eight hundred years of Sultanate and Mughal rule. The sculptural remains, of which there are many, include statues of Bhadramukha, Vishnu, Bharvahaka, Shiva, Hanumana, Ganesha, Durga, Gauri-Shankar.

Peaceful place. This is the kull devi mata of the owner of the fort . Till now the present king of this fort comes here to worship the ambika devi mata at least once a time in year but this mandir is under the supervision of government only but the raja come here to worship this goddess.

Ambika Devi Temple is located In Kangra fort compound Kangra Himachal Pradesh.

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