Mangueshi is a village in
Priol,
Ponda,
Goa, India. Mangueshi/Mangueshim are other variations for the same name.
Main Attraction
The temple of Shri
Mangesh is set amidst natural surroundings. Mangeshi, which is a little village along Goa's
Panaji-Ponda road is a point of pilgrimage for hundreds of tourists from all over India and abroad.
The temples of
Shree Shantadurga
Shantadurga (Devanagari:शांतादुर्गा, ) is the most popular form of the Hindu goddess Durga revered in Goa, India, as well some parts of Karnataka. She is a form of the ancient Mother goddess known as Santeri. She is worsh ...
located at
Kavale village,
Navdurga at
Madkai, and Shree Mangesh, are three revered patron deities of
GSB families in Goa are a must visit for any devotee/ tourist coming to Goa.
History
The original site of Sri
Mangueshi Temple is Kushasthali or Cortalim in
Salcette Taluka. To avoid the increasing
Portuguese missionary activities in Goa, the
GSB community was afraid for the safety of the temples and idols. Hence the families worshipping Shree
Shantadurga and Shree Manguesh, on a moonless night, leaving their homes and hearths crossed over the
Zuari River to a safer region which was under the rule of the Muslim King
Adilshah
The Adil Shahi or Adilshahi, was a Shia,Salma Ahmed Farooqui, ''A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century'', (Dorling Kindersley Pvt Ltd., 2011), 174. and later Sunni Muslim,Muhammad Qasim Firishta's ...
.
After remaining in the house of a temple priest for sometime, the deity idol was finally installed at its present site in the village.
The territory of Ponda was not under Portuguese rule in the 16th Century and hence was seen as a safe haven by the Hindus fleeing persecution by the Jesuits and Portuguese. The forests of Ponda were ideal places for Hindus to form makeshift temples with the Idols they had salvaged from the broken temples of Sashti (
Salsette).
Mangeshkar Family
The famous musical family of the Mangeshkar's belong to this village of Mangeshi. Their father,
Deenanath Mangeshkar was born (1900) in the village of Mangueshi then in
Portuguese India
The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...
to a temple priest and handmaiden of the deity Manguesh. His mother tongue was
Konkani. His father was a married
Karhade Brahmin ''
pujari'' and his mother was his
Devadasi
In India, a devadasi was a female artist who was dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life. The dedication took place in a ceremony that was somewhat similar to a marriage ceremony. In addition to taki ...
mistress belonging to
Gomantak Maratha Samaj
Gomantak Maratha Samaj is a Hindu community found in the Indian state of Goa. They are known as ''Nutan Maratha Samaj'' in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra and ''Naik Maratha Samaj'' in Maharashtra, Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, ...
community of Goa.
Deenanath's father had the last name ''Hardikar'';
, but Deenanath did not inherit his father's Brahmin caste and surname because his parents were not married to each other.
Deenanath adopted the surname Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town - Mangueshi.
Reaching Mangueshi Village
By Air
Mangueshi is 37.92 km from
Dabolim Airport.
Goa Dabolim Airport is well connected from all major cities of India & abroad.
By train
* The nearest town of
Ponda is located at a distance of 17 km from
Karmali railway station.
* The major railway terminus of
Madgaon
Margao or Madgaon is the commercial capital of the Indian state of Goa. It stands on banks of the Sal river and is the administrative headquarters of Salcete sub-district and South Goa district. It is Goa's second largest city by population aft ...
has bus services catering up to Ponda.
By Road
* Local bus services operated by private bus owners ply regularly from Ponda Bus Stand as well as from Kadamba Bus Stand, Panjim.
See also
*
Mangueshi Temple
*
Kavale
*
Shanta Durga temple
References
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Villages in North Goa district