Banmata Ji
Banmata Ji (Baneshwari, Brahmani) (Hindustani: बाण माता, बाणेश्वरी, ब्राम्हणी माता) is Kuldevi of Sisodia Rajput Clan who are from Mewar. Banmata Ji is the Kuldevi of most Sisodia clans from Gujarat State and saved all of the Sisodia clan rulers from wars and any puzzles. Sisodias worship her as their Mother. The most powerful kings of the clan, the Sisodias, are empowered by Banmata. Information about Kuldevi Banmata is very difficult to find, and the full life history of Banmata Ji is not known by anyone.
Banmata is very famous in Rajasthan because she is a Hindu goddess.
The kuldevi for the Sisodiyas used to be Ambamata Temple. Then, when the Sisodiyas were at Chitor, the kuldevi became Kalika Mata. There is still a temple for her there now. Later, when the king conquered Gujarat, he demanded a Gujarati princess in marriage. That princess had always wanted to marry the Sisodia king. She had even sent him a letter telling him that. Her kuldevi, Ban Mata, had determined to help her accomplish this aim. After the conquest, the marriage occurred.
When the princess left for her new home, Ban Mata came with her in the form of a pendant. That is how Banmata Banmata On Mission Kuldevi left Girnar (though there is still a temple for her there) and came here. A second account is not so much a variation as another etymology, one that states a homology between the Sanskritic goddess Chittorgarh and the kuldevi. The Sisodia used to worship Durga, Mata Ji. Banasur was a demon who fought with Mata Ji. She conquered him. From then on she was called Ban Mata. The name Ban was pronounced and written in many different ways: Ban, Baen, Bayan, Byan, and Vyana. Written sources tend to prefer Bayan, but informants usually spelled out Ban when I asked them to spell their kuldevi’s name. The antecedents of Ban Mata are vague. Amba and Kalika are Sanskritic epithets and so do not characterize these goddesses as discrete local incarnations. As we shall see, these stories refer to a kuldevi preceding the appearance of Ban Mata but give her no specific local name or identity. There is a Kalika Mandir at Chitor. Third identifies the king as Bappa Rawal and the bride as the daughter of Esupgole, prince of the island of Bunderdhiva (Annals and Antiquities 1:197). Another narrated variant identified Ban Mata as the daughter of a Charan in the village of Khod; Hamir, the great Sisodiya leader, heard of her powers, worshiped her, and asked her blessing in his attempt to reclaim Chitor from the Mughals. She aided him and he installed her as Sisodiya deity. This variant places the adoption of Ban Mata just after the Sisodiya line of Guhils came to the throne rather than after the Guhils first won Chitor, as Tod's variant has it. [1]
Temples
Banmata's famous temple is situated at Chittorgarh in Mewar. All of the clan’s people come from far and wide places and cities. This temple is so beautiful. Banmata Ji came from Gujarat state and lives in Chittor. All of her worshipper castes include Rajput, Mali, Banhiye, and all Sisodias. Banmata Ji came to prominence during the time of Maharana Sangram Singh. It is said that the power of Rana Sanga came from his Goddess.
References
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