Devi Hasol village Taluka Rajapur

Devi Hasol is very scenic and beautiful village on the bank of Muchakundee river in Rajapur taluka.The river is so named because it is said that it starts from a cave where Muchakund Rishi used to perform his "Tapascharya'' The Kaliyavahan rakshas was chasing Shrikrishna to kill him.Shrikrishna was aware that Muchakund Rishi was performing Tapascharya in the cave and hid in the dark cave.Kaiyavahan entered the cave and saw Muchakund Rishi. He disturbed Rishi in his Tapascharya to ask about Shrikrishna.Rishi opened his eyes with anger because he was disturbed. Kaliyavahan was burned to ashes. Muchakunda Rishi then saw Bhagwan Shrikrishna and got blessing of Shrikrishna. Shrikrishna said that river will start from this cave which will be named after Muchakund Rishi and hence the river was known as Muchakundee. It gets water from Vishalgad of Sahyadri mountain and other villages. Muchakundee flows thru Lanja Taluka and separate Rajapur Taluka from Lanja taluka and meets Sindhusagar at Purnagad which is in Ratnagiri Taluka. In rainy season it is very dangerous to cross the river as water flows with very high velocity. Many people have lost their lives in this river. I remember someone named Bahu Khopekar, a son of Abbas Khopekar, a Muslim business man in the village Bhalavali and whose business premises was on border of village Devi Hasol was drowned in the year(1958). I was just 8.5 year old at that time. Actually I was shocked by that incident. And since then I was always afraid of crossing the river alone.

Recently also four persons from Bhovad family in our village were drowned in the night of amavasya. Two brothers and their sons were drowned. Just three days before this incident a mute person from other village was also found dead on the bank of river. Every year this type of tragedies are heard.During rainy season and one or two months after rainy season water of the river is sweet.But after that flow of sweet water recedes and salty water of the hightide enters the river (back water of the sea) upto village Dasur/Satavali which are on eastern side of our village.This hightide water is also dangerous near new moon and full moon day.But river is really dangerous in rainy season. As mentioned above in the Bhalavali village, Khopekar family was staying for many years and they are still carring out the business of sell of grocery. The widow of Bahu Khopekar has also started seperate but same type of business in Bhalavali village.I have no information whether she is still carrying on the business in Bhalavali village. There are few more shops in Bhalavali managed by Hindu families .