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Badol Devi Temple (mandir)

Badol Devi Temple is situated in Badol village of Bilaspur. There's a very fascinating legend attached to this temple (mandir). It is said that in the future, an outdated villager named Bhura noticed that his cow had shed her milk on a selected place. Astonished by this unusual phenomenon, he tries to cease her from going there again. However, someway she managed to achieve the same place on a regular basis and shed her milk. Bhura thought that somebody had enthralled his cow and fearing the worst, he determined to axe her.

The second he hit the cow, he noticed that in place of blood, milk was emission out from her wounds. She ran away and Bhura tried to comply with her and in the process, misplaced his eyesight. He could not discover the cow and by the time he came again to his dwelling, he observed that his eyesight had been restored. When Bhura narrated this uncommon incident to the villagers, they determined to dig the place the place the cow had shed her milk. On digging, they found a 'pindi' of Goddess Durga mendacity here.

The King of Bilaspur had two wives and each of them constructed a temple at the place where the idol was found. This led to an argument as to which temple would enshrine the pindi of the Goddess. It is mentioned that the younger spouse had built the temple (mandir) out of religion, whereas the elder one out of envy. One night time, the pindi received mechanically installed within the younger queen's temple (mandir) and could not be removed from there. The pindi, together with the temple, was generally known as Goddess Badol Devi, one of the forms of Mother Shakti or deity Durga.