Sri Sri Hathi Kheda Thakur- Purulia

Patamda, Lawjora, Jharkhand 832105

Sri Sri Hathi Kheda Thakur- Purulia

Elephant is worshiped in this temple…women cannot eat the prasad here, crowd gathers on New Year

Akash Kumar/Jamshedpur. If you also want to spend this New Year well and expect happiness and prosperity of your family, then you should visit this temple of Jamshedpur, the whole year will be very good. Just 35 kilometers away from Jamshedpur, the iron city of Jharkhand. There is a temple where elephants are worshiped and not any deity.

This temple is famous by the name Baba Hathi Kheda Thakur in Bodam block of Patamada. Due to the presence of mountains and dense forests around the temple, the beauty of the temple remains worth seeing. Due to which a large number of tourists also come to visit here. Many sculptures of elephants have been made inside this temple complex.

Unique tradition of the temple
Speaking to Local 18, temple priest Dayal Singh said that there is a tradition of sacrificing sheep along with tying chunri and coconut. The special thing is that women cannot eat the prasad here. It is also prohibited to take the Prasad home from here. People living around the temple say that our ancestors have already made a rule that women are prohibited from eating the prasad here. Jayshree Sharma, who came to worship, said that devotees come to this temple from far and wide with vows and to fulfill them, they tie things like coconut, bells and chunari etc. in the temple premises. People sacrifice sheep to please the gods, some part of which is offered in the temple and the rest is taken as Prasad.