Historical PeriodEra
Varies by tradition
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Deities
Mahāmāyā of Ratanpur
Mahāmāyā — ancient Chhattisgarhi mother-goddess
Mahāmāyā — ancient Chhattisgarhi mother-goddess
Hindu / Shakta / Chhattisgarhi
Mahāmāyā of Ratanpur — the presiding goddess of the Haihaya-vamśī kings of Chhattisgarh (11th–17th c. CE). Ratanpur was the Kalachuri-era capital. The shrine's ancient stone-idol is the principal devī of coastal and plateau Chhattisgarh. Annual Caitra Navrātri draws half a million. The goddess is counted among the 52 Shakti pīṭhas (though not on the traditional canonical 51 list).
India's sacred landscape embraces all faith-traditions — Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Zoroastrian, tribal, regional-folk — each with its own cosmology. This entry honors Hindu on its own terms.
