About Sharada Devi Temple This is one of the famous Hindu temple in India.This north indian temple is commonly known as Sharda Devi, and people living there (means localised) use to call this temple as Maihar Devi or Maa Sharda Mandir or Maihar Mata Mandir or Maihar Devi Mandir or Maihar ki Sharda Mata. According to mythology lord Brahma performed a yagna to sacrifice shiva and shakthi. Goddess shakthi arise seperately from shiva and helped brahma for creating the universe. After completing a work brahma decided to give shakthi to shiva. At that time his son dhaksha performed many yaganas to get shakthi as his daughter in the form of sati and planned to marry sati to shiva after getting into the world. But due to shivas curse to brahma was taht his fifth head was cut off due to his lie in front of shiva.by this incident dhaksha got angry on shiva and decided not to let sati and shiva get married. However sati got attarcted by shiva and got married. So dhaksha performed a yagna to take revenge on lord shiva.For that yagna he invites all the dieties except lord shiva so sati got angry and fallen into the yagna.By the insult of dhaksha towards shiva,Shiva in virabhadra avatar destroyed dhakshas yagna and also cut the dhakshas head and later replaced it by the male goat head. Still submerged in angry shiva carried the satis body and performed tandava, dance of destruction. All other gods requested vishnu to stop this destruction so vishnu used his sudharshana chakra and cut the satis body in numerous pieces. All the parts of the body fell in differnt places and it is called as shakthi peeth. At all the shakthi peeth goddess shakthis consort is accompained that is lord bhairava(shiva). It is believed that in this place only shakthi's chest part fell down. Another interesting story was that there was a cowboy who used to go to the Trikoot hill for grazing the cattles. One day he saw one golden coloured cow was along with his cattles but at the time of his return it had vanished, He was very much surprised to find this and decided that next day he would definitely catch that cow and ask its owner to pay him for grazing that cow. The next day at the time of his return, that cow went the other way and he started following it. After a certain distance the cow entered a cave and door of the cave closed. Despite his repeated calls nobody opened the door and the cowboy kept sitting there. A few hours later a very old lady opened the door and enquired of the cowboy about his problem. Thereupon he said he wanted some remuneration for grazing her cow. The old lady gave him some grains and advised him not to come here again. The cowboy asked her how she lived there alone she said that was her home. The cowboy returned home and found that the grains had turned into costly jewels and gems. He thought these things were useless for him so he went to the king and gave him the same and told him all about. The king wondered and asked him to take him to that place the next day.That day itself the King saw a dream wherein that old lady told him that she is Adi Shakti ( super power) Maa Sharada and asked him to build a shed over her idol at the top of the hill and arrange the required passage so as to facilitate her devotees to come to her and offer their prayers. The King accordingly made all arrangements.People pray in the temple to achieve high ranks in academic field and for child boon.Devotees perform milk abishek to Mother and offer pudding nivedhana.