Ambamata Temple

Ambamata Temple is a large Hindu temple in Udaipur, about 3 km from the city centre near Fateh Sagar Lake, and one of the city's major places of worship. According to tradition, Maharana Raj Singh (1652–1680), suffering from an eye ailment his physicians could not cure, was advised to visit the Ambika Mata shrine in the Arbuda hills of Gujarat. Before he set out, the goddess appeared in a dream and said she would come to Mewar instead. Digging where the dream directed, his men found her idol, he was cured, and the temple was raised on the spot, being completed in 1664.

The east-facing white stone temple stands on a 20-foot platform inside a high compound wall. A nakkar khana with gold lion figures on either side tops the main gate, and within is a courtyard with a Charan Paduka platform and about eight steps up to the shrine.