Mata no Madh is a village in Lakhpat Taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat, India.
The village lies surrounded by hills on both banks of a small stream and has a temple dedicated to Ashapura Mata, the household deity of former Jadeja rulers of kutch State.
[1] Three of the coals, gypsum, Kutch bauxite and lignite are mined by the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation.
According to their own account, they came from Gujarat around 1100 CE, and of this, they say, they had evidence as late as the battle of Jara (1762), when, leaving their villages, they lost their records.
In past, they owned and held the revenues of the villages of Madh, Netraj, Murchbanu, Kotda, and Dedarani.
[3] Jamadar Fateh Muhammad, the military leader of Cutch State, had presented this temple with a deepmala weighing 2 kg silver, and with 41 lamps carved in it.
[2][7] Camps and relief facilities are set up around the road leading to Mata no Madh, every year for this pilgrimage.
[8] On the top of Jagora, a hill about two miles to the north of Matano Madh in a small cave entered by a narrow opening, is a rough red coloured stone.
From the same rock a stream of water falls into a twenty feet square pool with flights of steps.
It is fifteen to twenty feet deep, and the water, which is charged with salts of sulphur, is used for bathing, washing clothes, and in the manufacture of alum in past.