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It is a very old temple. According to Indian "PURANA"s, King SAGAR ruled this land during ancient times. At the same time, a great saint KAPIL made his ASHRAMA in this place. King of Gods INDRA was the only person who arranged ASHWAMEDH YAJNA for 108 times. None other than he was able to perform this YAJNA for so many times. But king SAGAR started to arrange that Yajna for the 108th time. Being feared that the record of 108 times Yajna in his credit will be shared by another king. Indra theft the Ashwa ( Horse) and kept it in the Ashrama of Saint Kapil. The man of king Sagar started to search the particular Ashwa and found it in this Ashrama. They thought that the horse has been theft by the saint and started to beat him up. The saint came angry and killed all the king's man. They were 60000 in number. As a result the arrangement of Yajna was abandoned. Years later, Bhagirath, a member from king Sagar's family prayed to mother Ganga (Goddess of water, River) for passing through this valley to give re-birth of those 60000 people. The goddess was satisfied on the prayer of Bhagirath and came down to this valley as a river, and passed through this Ashrama. An Ashrama was made on the bank to commemorate the incident, which is now known as Kapilasrama and this is it.