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'''Mangueshi''' is a village located within [[Ponda taluka]] in the coastal state of [[Goa]], India. '''Mangueshi''' or '''Mangueshim''' are other variations for the same name.[[File:Entrance path to Mangeshi Temple.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Entrance path to Mangeshi Temple]]

[[File:Shri Mangeshi Temple Lake.jpg|200px|thumb|right|View of Shri Mangeshi Temple Lake.jpg]]

==History==
The original site of [[Mangueshi Temple]] is Kushasthali or Cortalim in [[Salcette]] taluka. To avoid the increasing [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] missionary activities in Goa, the [[Goud Saraswat Brahmin|GSB]] community was afraid for the safety of the temples and idols. Hence the families worshipping Shree [[Shantadurga]] and Shree Manguesh, on a moonless night, leaving their homes and hearths crossed over the [[Zuari River]] to a safer region which was under the rule of the Muslim King [[Adilshah]].

After remaining in the house of a temple priest for sometime, the deity idol was finally installed at its present site in the village.

The territory of Ponda was not under Portuguese rule in the 16th Century and hence was seen as a safe haven by the Hindus fleeing persecution by the Jesuits and Portuguese. The forests of Ponda were ideal places for Hindus to form makeshift temples with the Idols they had salvaged from the broken temples of Sashti ([[Salsette]]).

[[File:Shri Mangeshi Temple Rath (temple chariot).jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shri Mangeshi Temple Rath (Temple Chariot).]]

==Mangeshkar Family==
The famous musical family of the Mangeshkar's belong to this village of Mangeshi. Their father, [[Deenanath Mangeshkar]] was born (1900) in the village of Mangueshi then in [[Portuguese India]] to a temple priest and handmaiden of the deity Manguesh. His mother tongue was [[Konkani language|Konkani]]. His father was a married [[Karhade Brahmin]] ''[[pujari]]'' and his mother was his [[Devadasi]] [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]] belonging to [[Gomantak Maratha Samaj]] community of Goa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweek.in/leisure/society/2019/09/27/lata-mangeshkar-at-90-tracing-mangeshkar-lineage-to-western-ghats.html|title=Lata Mangeshkar@90: Tracing the Mangeshkar lineage to the Western Ghats|website=[[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] }}</ref><ref name=Deenanath>{{cite book|last=Cabral e Sá|first=Mário|title=Wind of fire: the music and musicians of Goa|year=1997|publisher=Promilla & Co.|isbn=978-81-85002-19-4 |page=166}}</ref>

Deenanath's father had the last name ''Hardikar'';,<ref name=mother>{{cite book|last=Bhimani|first=Harish|title=In search of Lata Mangeshkar|year=1995|publisher=Indus|isbn=978-81-7223-170-5|pages=47–48}}</ref> but Deenanath did not inherit his father's Brahmin caste and surname because his parents were not married to each other.<ref>{{cite web|title=Asha Bhosle has not done enough for Goa: BJP lawmaker|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/asha-bhosle-has-not-done-enough-for-goa-bjp-lawmaker-2-760577.html|website=First post|date=7 May 2013|quote="The relation between Goa and the Mangeshkars strained further after the eldest sibling Lata Mangeshkar was not allowed to perform a rite by the temple management, which cited caste concerns."}}</ref> Deenanath adopted the surname '''Mangeshkar''' in order to identify his family with his native town - Mangueshi.

[[File:Shri Mangeshi Temple - Majestic 7 storied Deepa Stambha (Lamp Tower-.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shri Mangeshi Temple - Majestic 7 storied [[Deep Jyoti Stambh|Deepa Stambha]].]]

==See also==
* [[Mangueshi Temple]]
* [[Kavale]]
* [[Shanta Durga temple]]

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in North Goa district]]

Mangueshi - Revision history

Basavaraj at 10:53, 6 May 2026