Bhathiji

While he was marrying Kankuba and was completing the fourth of the seventh fera, he came to know that Muslim king of Kapadvanj, receiving a complaint against him had impounded the mother Gaus (Cow) of the village.

[1] There are folk songs of how Bhatihiji's headless body continued to fight the Muslim raiders till all of them were wiped out.

[1] The Rathod Rajputs of Saurashtra worship his as kuladevata[3] The iconography of Bhatihiji is of a male warrior that rides a horse wielding a sword in his right hand.

[4] In Devada village of Kheda district of Gujarat, hundreds of worshippers of Bhathiji, Hindus as well as Muslims, line up there every Friday to seek the blessings of the deity and the priest, and take a vow to renounce liquor.

[6] In 2002, Narendra Modi, then the Gujarat chief Minister, flagged off his Gaurav Yatra from Bhathiji Temeple at Phagvel.