Sankashti Chaturthi Mandal
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At the foot of the Moti Dungri hills in Jaipur stands a temple whose very location was decided not by careful planning, but by where a bullock cart happened to come to rest.
A Long Journey by Cart
Tradition holds that the King of Mewar, returning from a distant journey, was transporting a large and sacred idol of Shree Ganesh upon a bullock cart, resolved to build a temple at the exact spot where the cart made its first halt.
A Resting Place Becomes Permanent
That halt came at the base of the Moti Dungri hills, and true to the king's resolve, the temple was constructed there, built in 1761 and remaining, to this day, one of Jaipur's most visited and beloved Ganesha shrines.
What Devotees Seek
Following a custom that continues among Jaipur's residents, devotees send the very first invitation for any auspicious occasion to Moti Dungri's Shree Ganesh, honoring the same instinct that once let a bullock cart, rather than human planning, choose where devotion would take root.