So here is something about a temple in Miriya village, Ratnagiri. The village was on the coast of
the White sea beach (Pandre Samudra), and the main occupation of the people there was
fishing. Their everyday routine there was fishing early in the morning and selling the fish to the
fish traders of other villages. At the end of every month, villagers used to gather at the beach
and used to do Maha Pooja to thank the Samudra Dev for keeping them happy and healthy.
One day early morning a villager saw a man in white clothes lying unconscious by the
road, seeing him he called more people for help and took him to a ved in the village. The ved
treated him and after some time he woke up and started asking for food. The ved's wife gave
him Ghavne (neer dosa) chutney to eat, while he was eating the ved informed the villagers that
the man they found had woken up. Soon the villagers came and asked him who he is and
where did he come from. As they were asking questions the man saw a blind woman among the
villagers, he ignored all their questions and called her in front of him. As she came in front of
him he kept one hand on her eyes and the other hand up in the air, closed his eyes, and started
mumbling something. After some time he took his hand from the woman's eyes and as she
opened her eyes she started jumping looking everywhere, she could see everything now, she
was not blind anymore. Seeing this the villagers were stunned seeing his powers, they again
started asking the man who is he and that's when the man spoke, he said "My name is
Mahapurush, thank you for saving me and giving me food, I should leave now", saying this he
stood up and was about to leave when the villagers stopped and insisted him to stay with them
in the village, they gave him a house to stay and provided him food every day.
Now, whenever people had any problems they used to go to the Mahapurush and he
used to solve them. These days some villagers stopped gathering for Maha pooja on the beach.
People started believing more in Mahapurush than Samudra dev. Slowly the Samudra dev had
started getting angry but the villagers were clueless about it.
After some years the Mahapurush suddenly disappeared, and the villagers tried to search for him
a lot but failed. Then they decided to build a Mahapurush temple on the road sideroadside where they
first found him. After the temple was made they started doing Poojas there and completely
stopped gathering for the maha pooja on the beach. Samudra dev felt this insult and anger
took over him. The sea used to keep flooding, due to floods their boats were destroyed and
whenever they went for fishing they couldn't catch any fish. Because of this, the economy of the
village dropped. People were jobless, they had no money to educate their children because
which literacy of the village also dropped. They even prayed to allot in Mahapurush temple but
nothing worked the problems were getting worse.
One dayana old lady of the village suggested the villagers to build a temple on the beach for
Samudra dev and start the Maha pooja ritual again to make him happy as he was angry
because the villagers ignored him and started believing more in Mahapurush. But now most
people being jobless they had no money to build a concrete temple. So they decided to make
the temple from mango, and jackfruit wood. Soon the temple was made on the coast of the beach.
Maha Pooja was held and slowly the Samudra dev cooled down and everything started getting
normal economy of the village started growing as people started fishing again, and kids started
going to school. The temple also worked as a shade for the tired fishermen, kids used to sit
in the temple to study and play, and women used to meet and gossip. And Even thoughtthough the
temple was made of wood it didn't rot due to the salty water.
So we designed a Shrine for the villagers
LOCATION OF THE SHRINE
PLAN
SECTION
CONSTRUCTIONS OF STAIRS
FOUNDATION FOR COLUMNS
PLACEMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF CANTILEVERS
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