Kanpur’s Unique Samay Dev Shiva Temple: There are many ancient and unique temples of Mahadev, the god of gods, across the country, where the traditions of worshiping Lord Shiva are also different and unique. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh also has a unique temple of Mahadev. Here, along with worshiping God, time is worshipped. Lord Shiva is called here ‘time dev’. And they’re worshipped. Let’s go into detail about this religious site.
Lord Shiva is considered lord of Kaal in the scriptures, hence he is known as Mahakaal. Here But only Lord Shiva is present in the form of Time God Are. This temple has a little Shivalinga. Devotees here worship their adored as time god. There’s an old peepal in Nawabganj area of Kanpur. That’s where this little temple of God remains.
The clock is placed when the vow is fulfilled
Temple’s so small 10 people can’t get in at once, but it still draws crowds of devotees. Especially those devotees whose wishes are fulfilled definitely come here. The tradition of worship and distribution of Prasad in this temple makes it different from everyone else. Devotees in this temple offer a watch as an offering and even after the wish is fulfilled, the watch is offered.
Not only this, in this temple only a watch is given to the devotees as Prasad. It’s done, because the number of clocks climbed by devotees here becomes too high. Devotees visiting here believe that time deva removes troubles quickly. This temple gets special crowd of devotees at the time of Sawan. Story of this temple told very interesting.
The story of the temple is interesting
Temple narrative, once a Kanpur merchant visited Dev Temple during Gujarat. There she had vowed. He had said he’d build a similar temple in his city if his work was done. When he’s done and he comes back to Kanpur, he set up Shivalinga as Samay Dev. Just since then this time Dev Mandir in Kanpur became popular.
