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Devi TempleAt Bhadaini, on a steep lane past Mata Anandmayee Hospital toward the Bhadaini Water Works, Charma Munda Devi is worshipped in a temple locals call the 'Nav Durga Temple,' sharing her premises with Maha Munda Devi, also known as Maha Runda.
The Kashi Khand (Chapter 70) describes Charma Munda Devi, worshipped within Tarkeshwar Teerth, in striking iconographic terms — a vast figure with a thousand shoulders and oversized hands, holding a skull and a knife, embodying the same fierce protective role shared with Chamunda Devi and Maha Munda Devi as one of Kashi's Kshetra Rakshikas.
Devotees traditionally believe that sincere worship here removes obstacles specifically from one's religious or spiritual practice, distinguishing this shrine's particular promise from the more worldly prosperity and family blessings associated with the neighbouring Chamunda Devi temple near Lolark Kund.
The local name 'Nav Durga Temple' reflects how this shrine, housing more than one fierce Devi form in one compound, has come to be associated in everyday speech with the wider Navadurga tradition, even though its specific deities — Charma Munda and Maha Munda — are drawn from a different scriptural grouping.
B-2/62, Bhadaini — after Mata Anandmayee Hospital, toward Bhadaini Water Works
The 'Nav Durga Temple'
Maha Munda Devi (also called Maha Runda)
The name reflects local usage rather than formal scriptural classification — the temple houses more than one fierce Devi form (Charma Munda and Maha Munda), which has led residents to associate it loosely with the wider Navadurga tradition.
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