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Rani Sati Temple

The story of Rani Sati Dadi Maa starts from the time of Mahabharata. The young and heroic warrior, Abhimanyu, was killed by the Kauravas on the battlefield by using unethical methods, when he was unarmed. Abhimanyu's wife Uttara was shocked and distraught to hear of her husband's death. As a Hindu wife, Uttara was devoted to her husband and, upon hearing of his death, wanted to ascend his funeral pyre and commit Sati. She stated her intention of joining her husband in death and in the hereafter. While the act of Sati is held to be meritorious in the highest degree, the elders of her family told her that Sati at this point would be sinful rather than meritorious. This was because Uttara was pregnant at this time, and a pregnant woman committing Sati is against Dharma, they said.

Shree Krishna, who was divinity personified, was also Abhimanyu's maternal uncle. He told Uttara that harming an unborn child is an unforgivable sin and she should accept that committing Sati was not in her destiny in this lifetime. Uttara accepted that, as a pregnant woman, she would be sinning if she committed Sati, and therefore she must continue to live as a widow. It was a bitter prospect for Uttara, a young woman who had lived her youth so happily with such a heroic young man, to now live a long life with only the memory of such a glorious husband. Uttara agreed not to end her life, and sought a blessing from Shree Krishna: that she be married to Abhimanyu in every future lifetime, and that she either live throughout every lifetime as a Suhaagan, or, if it ever be in her destiny to be again widowed, she be spared the additional sorrow of life without her husband; she asked that she be able to attain the venerable status of Sati at least in that future lifetime. Shree Krishna granted her the boon she sought.