Goddess Devaki is the most important character in the life sketch of Lord Krishna, on whose infinite sacrifice the entire life of Sri Krishna has stood. Her eighth child was to be born as the savior of world, so to give birth to him, Mauli endured separations of her seven children even before their birth and gave birth to Her eighth son in the prison of her brother Kamsa. Even after that, she endured the distance of the
eighth child being far away for the next twelve years. It is really surprising that there is only one temple of this great mother in India and that too in the village of Marshall in Goa. Built approximately 150 years ago it was the first and only attempt to deify this great mother. The temple constructed recently at Sai Hari Kshetra, Apta Phata is the second temple of Sri Devaki Mata in India. Every devotee who comes to have darshan of Sri Dwarkadhish has got the fortune now of having the darshan of the most sacrificing Mother Sri Devaki Mata because of this.

The construction of this temple was inspired during the pilgrimage to
Dwarka along with Gurumauli P.P. Tai and Her blessings were given to
this work. Gurumauli Tai wanted the idol of Devaki krishna in this
temple to be similar to the idol in the temple at Marshall and accordingly this idol was finalized. On 29th July 2021, the idol was ritually installed in octagonally shaped temple of Sri Devaki Mata. The reason of keeping the shape of temple as octagonal is that Sri Devaki Mata is an incarnation of Aadimaya since she took birth in the family of Kamsa to become a mother of Sri Krishna as recently known authentically.