Thawe Mandir

Gopalganj is a small town in Bihar.Very few people know about this city even in Bihar.The place have some famous Legends that mostly Devotees and Locals know about.

The Thawe Mandir, the Temple of Maa Thawewali is situated in Thawe, in Gopalganj District in the State of Bihar, India. There are several names and forms of Maa Shakti. Bhaktas (devotees) worship her by many names in many forms, Maa Thawewali is one of them. It is said that Maa has arrived here from her other holy place Kamrup, Assam where she is well known as “Maa Kamakhya” where maa recides in the form of vagina of maa sati, on the prayer of her great devotee “Shree Rahshu Bhagat Ji”. Maa is also known as “Singhasini Devi” "Rahshu Bhawani".

In the village, there is an old fort, but the history of the fort is obscure. The King of Hathwa had a palace there but it is now in a decadent state. Close by the residence of the Hathwa Raja, there is an old temple dedicated to Goddess Durga. Within the enclosure of the temple, there is a peculiar tree, the botanical family of which has not yet been identified. The tree has grown up like the cross. Various legends are prevalent in connection with the idol and the tree. A big fair is annually held in the month of Chaitra (March-April).

The story of the establishment of thawe Durga Temple is quite interesting. Manan Singh, the king of the Chero dynasty, considered himself a great devotee of Mother Durga, when suddenly there was a famine in the king's kingdom. At the same time, there was a devotee of Mata Rani in Thawe. Rice started coming out when Rahshu ran pater from the tiger. That is why the people there started getting food grains. It reached the king, but the king could not believe it.The king protested against Rahshu and called him a hypocrite and asked Rahshu to call his mother here. On this, Rahshu told the king that if the mother came here, she would destroy the kingdom but king did not considered it. At the call of Rahshu Bhagat,On the condition that She would appear through him, Goddess Maa walked from Kamakhya and reached Thawe in Gopalganj via Ami of Patna and Saran. It is beleived by many locals that "Maa Thawe Wali" appeared peircing through Rahshu Bhagat's head and he died there.All the buildings of the king collapsed.Then the king died.The famous Prasad of Thawe maa Bhawani is- Pidkiyaa.