Kāman / Kāmaban

The village in Bharatpur district, Rajasthan, 60 kilometres west of Mathura, holding the Kameshvara Mahadev temple — one of the four Shiva shrines (with Pippaleshwar at Kankroli, Chakleshwar at Govardhan and Nandeshwar at Nandgaon) that frame the Braj Mandal. The Keshava-Deo pond and Vimala Kund here are counted among the Chaurasi Kos circuit's bathing stops. The town's name combines Kama (desire) and Van (forest), referring to the Puranic account of Kamadeva's tapasya here after Shiva reduced him to ash — reconstituted on this ground.