Charbhuja Nathji Temple

In Garhbor village in the Kumbhalgarh tehsil of Rajsamand district, at an elevation of roughly 849 meters, the Charbhuja Nathji Temple enshrines an 85-centimeter image of Vishnu in his four-armed (Charbhuja) form, holding the conch, discus, mace, and lotus that mark his iconography across Vaishnava tradition. Wikipedia’s sourced account credits the temple’s completion to 1444 CE and to a builder named Bharat Pandiya, making it one of the older dated Vishnu shrines in this part of Mewar.

The temple’s sanctum rises beneath a tall shikhar topped with an octagonal, dome-like finial, and stone elephant sculptures flank its entrance in a style typical of medieval Rajasthani temple architecture. Its annual calendar centers on Janmashtami and the post-Diwali Annakut offering, alongside the Jal Jhulni Ekadashi water festival and the Fagotsav celebration around Holi — occasions that continue to draw devotees from across the surrounding Mewar region to this comparatively lesser-known but long-standing rare-iconography Vishnu shrine.