Legend has it that she had to absorb the power of all the Shaktis in order to give a boon to Shree Kama, the God of Love. She is “Raja Rajeshwari,” and an embodiment of the Universal power – Parashakti. She has Shree Parvati, Shree Laxmi, and Shree Saraswati as her 3 eyes and just a glimpse of her lotus feet bestows salvation.

How the Goddess came to Lotli is told in an interesting piece of history. Shri. Agnimukh Sharma, a Saraswat from Lotli, had gone on a religious pilgrimage. In Kaur, (Kanchi), he could not tear himself away from the Temple of the Goddess Kamaxi. He overstayed, though he normally did not wait in one temple town for more than 3 days. On the 9th night, he dreamt that he would find an idol of the Devi in the holy tank where he bathed.

As promised, so did it happen; and Agnimukh Sharma set back for Goa, elated. On his way back at Latal, he found a beautiful statue of Shree Kalbhairav, the commander of the 60,000 ganas of Shree Kamaxi. Carrying the idols of Shree Kamaxi and Shree Kalbhairav, he reached Raia, just on the outskirts of Lotli.

Resting the night, at his sister's house in Raia, he was careful to hang the bag with the idols on a peg on a wall, the Shastras saying that if a holy Idol touches the ground, it has to be consecrated and worshipped at that place. Unfortunately, (but fortunately for the villagers of Raia, as we shall see), Agnimukh Sharma's nephew picked the bag down to satiate his curiosity, probably wondering what his uncle might have brought for him from distant places.