Kalaram Temple | PM Modi visit and Ambedkar | Indepth | Drishti IAS

After his roadshow in Nashik, Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (January 12) visited the Kalaram Mandir on the banks of the Godavari in the Panchavati area of the city. A day earlier, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray had said he would spend January 22 — the day of the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya — at the temple. The temple is also the site of a landmark agitation led by Babasaheb Ambedkar demanding temple entry rights for Dalits more than 90 years ago.A number of important events described in the epic story of Lord Ram took place here. Ram, along with Sita and Lakshman, spent the first few years of their 14-year exile in Dandakaranya, the dense forest in central India of which Panchavati was a part. The name Panchavati comes from the existence of five banyan trees in the area.But it is also the site of an important Dalit satyagraha. In 1930, B R Ambedkar and the Marathi teacher and social activist Pandurang Sadashiv Sane, known as Sane Guruji, led an agitation to demand access for Dalits to Hindu temples. On March 2, 1930, Ambedkar organized a large protest outside the Kalaram temple. Dalit protesters arrived in Nashik in trucks, and surrounded the temple with a sit-in. Over the next few days, they sang songs, raised slogans, and demanded the right to enter the temple. The Kalaram temple derives its name from a black statue of the Lord — Kala Ram translates literally to “Black Ram”. The sanctum sanctorum has statues of Ram, Sita, and Lakshman, and a black idol of Hanuman at the main entrance.The temple, which is visited by thousands of devotees every day, was built in 1792 with the efforts of one Sardar Rangarao Odhekar, according to the website of the Shree Kalaram Mandir Sansthan. It is said that Sardar Odhekar dreamt of a black-colored statue of Lord Ram in the Godavari, and recovered the statues from the river and built the temple. The place where statues were found was named Ramkund, according to the Santhinatha main temple has 14 steps, which represent the 14 years of Ram’s exile. It has 84 pillars, which represent the cycle of 84 lakh species that one has to complete in order to be born as a human. The Sansthan website says there is a very old tree, with an impression of Lord Dattatreya’s footprints on stone beneath it.
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