बारा जिल्लाको बरियारपुर गा.वि.स.मा पर्ने गढ़ीमाई भगवतीको मन्दिर नेपालको ऐतिहमासिक, धार्मिक, सांस्कृतिक र पुरातात्विक दृष्टिकोणले धेरै महत्वपूर्ण मानिन्छ । जहाँ प्रत्येक पाँच-पाँच वर्षमा विश्वको दोर्सो सबभन्दा ठूलो मेला लाग्ने गर्दछ । विश्वमा सबैभन्दा बढी वली यसै मेलामा दिने गरिन्छ । सदरमुकाम कलैयादेखि ८ किलोमिटर पूर्वको दूरीमा गढ़ीमाईको मन्दिर अवस्थित छ ।
The Gadhimai festival has its origins in
the 18th century with a feudal landlord Bhagwan Chaudhary and a village healer adept in the Hindu occult, Dukha Kachadiya. Bhagwan Chaudhary was imprisoned at Makwanpur fort prison 260 years ago. While imprisoned he dreamed a dream that his problems would be solved if he made a blood sacrifice to Gadhimai, in other words if he sacrificed an animal. After leaving prison Chaudhary took advice from Kachadiya. According to tradition at the time of Chaudhary’s sacrifice a light appeared in an earthenware jar and from than onwards the sacrifice has continued every five years for the last 260 years.
