Recently visited this holy place on 11 March 2010. The temple of Dhari Devi is situated on the banks of the Alaknada. One has to travel a distance of 15 kms. from Srinagar on Srinagar-Badrinath motorable road up to Kaliya Saur then down trek another half a kilometer towards Alaknanda river. According to a local legend, the temple was once washed off by floods, while floating the idol struck against a rock, the villagers heard the cries of the idol. On reaching the site they heard a divine voice instructing them to install the idol as it was, on the spot it was found. Since then the fierce looking idol remains where it was, known as Dhari Devi, under the open sky, and thousands of devotees on the way to Badrinath pay their obeisance to it
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