History of Naina devi rewalsar
Mandi State Raja Suraj Sen being a very devout Hindu, had a temple built in honour of Naina Devi near Rewalsar. A curious story is related about the mason who built this temple. A few years earlier this man had built the Damdama palace in Mandi, and although a modern visitor searches in vain for any great artistic or architectural beauty in the building, Raja Suraj Sen was very proud of it, and after giving a generous reward to the mason he had the latter’s right hand cut off so that he might not be able to recreate-what the Raja con-sidered-this wonderful feat of architectural genius. In spite of this disability the mason was able to build the Naina Devi temple much to the wonder of the ignorant and credulous people.
