Kumbheshwar Kunda (Kwantitirtha)

A wealthy merchant of Patan set out on the arduous pilgrimage to Gosainkunda, taking his younger wife with him. He had entrusted the entire responsibility of the household and his business to his elder wife.

Crossing an extremely difficult path, the couple reached Gosainkunda. Seeing the otherworldly beauty there, they forgot all their weariness and reverently immersed themselves in the lake.

While bathing, a precious diamond-studded gold ring slipped from the hand of the younger wife and fell into the deep lake. Despite a long search the ring was not found, and they returned to Patan in sorrow.

Some time later, on the day of the full moon of the bright fortnight of Shrawan, the elder wife, who was in Patan, went to bathe in the Kwantitirtha Kunda within the precincts of the Kumbheshwar temple.

As she put her hand into the water, by a wonder the very same diamond-studded gold ring came into her hand. She put the ring on her finger and returned home. Later, when the younger wife saw her lost ring on the elder wife's hand, a dispute arose, and it reached the king's court for justice.

When the merchant revealed the whole incident, the mystery was proven that the sacred water of Gosainkunda flowed secretly underground into the Kumbheshwar Kunda. Thereafter that Kunda of Kumbheshwar came to be worshipped as 'Kwantitirtha', regarded as the very water-form of Gosainkunda itself.