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Devi TempleAt Manmandir Ghat — home to the Jantar Mantar-style astronomical observatory built by Raja Jai Singh II of Jaipur — Varahi Devi is worshipped as one of the Sapta Matrikas, the seven mother goddesses, in her distinctive boar-headed (varaha) form.
The Sapta Matrikas are a set of seven goddesses, each representing the feminine power (shakti) of a major male deity — Varahi specifically embodies the shakti of Vishnu's boar (Varaha) avatar, paralleling the male Varaha forms such as Yagya Varaha and Tamra Varaha covered elsewhere on this site, but as an independent goddess in her own right rather than a consort figure.
Manmandir Ghat's observatory, one of five such Jantar Mantar instruments built across India in the early 18th century for tracking celestial movements, gives this stretch of riverfront an unusual dual identity as both a site of scientific and astronomical history and a significant point of goddess worship.
Sharing an address with Someshwar Mahadev, covered elsewhere on this site, places Varahi Devi within the same small multi-deity compound, allowing a single visit to cover both a Shiva linga and this Matrika goddess form.
Manmandir Ghat
One of the Sapta Matrikas (seven mother goddesses), in her boar-headed form
The Jantar Mantar-style astronomical observatory
A set of seven mother goddesses in Hindu tradition, each embodying the shakti (feminine power) of a major male deity; Varahi specifically represents the power of Vishnu's boar (Varaha) avatar.
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