The clan goddesses
Before any greater god, a Rajput turns to his Kuldevi — the clan goddess in whose presence the marriage knot is tied and to whom the family owes its fortune. Each clan keeps its own, with a chief temple at a fixed place, the Matajinun Thanak.
Jadeja
Ashapuraआशापुरा
The Yadava-descended Jadejas of Halar carry the goddess Ashapura from their Kutch homeland; her chief seat is the temple of Mata-no-Madh in western Kutch. In the villages of Morvi the Jadejas keep her worship even where no temple stands, and increasingly honour Krishna, Rama and Hanuman beside her.
Clan profileJhala (Zala)
Shakti (Shaktidevi)શક્તિ
Shaktidevi — the Solanki princess who, tradition holds, snatched her sons and a boy from a mad elephant, giving the clan its name Jhala (Zala) — is worshipped to this day as the dynastic goddess of the Jhalas (Zalas), with her seat at Halvad, the old capital of the clan.
Clan profileGohil
Chamundaचामुंडा
The Gohils hold Chamunda as their , with her temple at Rajpara near Sihor. Sub-lineages kept their own forms — the Dewani Gohils worship Chamunda as Ai-Ma at Pachhegam — and the Bhavnagar house came increasingly to honour the goddess Khodiyar as a family deity.
Clan profileJethwa
Vindhyavasiniविंध्यवासिनी
The Jethwas — who claim descent from Makardhwaja, son of Hanuman, and are reckoned the oldest of the ruling clans — hold Vindhyavasini as their clan goddess, her seat lying near Jamnagar on the Halar coast where the clan long ruled from Ghumli and Porbandar.
Clan profileParmar
Mandavraiમાંડવરાય
Alone among the clans, the Parmars’ tutelary deity is male — Mandavrai, the Sun — an idol their leader Lakhdhirsinhji is said to have carried from Thar-Parkar. The choice fits the Parmars’ myth of origin from the sacrificial fire, and his seat lies near Muli, their capital.
Clan profileChudasama
Khodiyarખોડિયાર
The Samma-Yadava Chudasamas of Sorath hold Khodiyar as their , her common seat at Gorasu. The clan, once spread over fifty-two villages of the Bhal, kept a common worship there — and at the marriage of a daughter make their offerings at the Shiva temple of Bhimnath as well.
Clan profileVaghela
Chamundaचामुंडा
A sub-branch of the Solankis of Anhilwad Patan, the Vaghelas share Chamunda as their clan goddess, with her seat near Muli in the north-east of the peninsula where the clan held sway before the Parmars.
Clan profileVala
Khodiyar (Khubwali)ખોડિયાર
The Valas — who claim to be the oldest of the Saurashtra clans, tracing to Shiladitya of Valabhi — worship Khodiyar in her form as Khubwali, her seat near Zanzmer, in the coastal tract of Walak where the Vala Rajputs long held their villages.
Clan profileSarvaiya
Khodiyarખોડિયાર
The Sarvaiyas — cadets of the Chudasama house granted the eighty-four villages around Sarvi — keep the Chudasama Khodiyar, the crocodile-borne goddess of Gorasu and Matel, as their own. As with the parent line, no marriage of the house is complete without her blessing.
Clan profileRathod
Nagnechi Mataનાગણેચી
Nagnechi Mata (Nagnechiya) — the goddess the Rathods carried with them from Nagana in Marwar — is the of every Rathod house, the Vaja and Vadher branches of the Saurashtra coast among them. Wherever a Rathod settled, from Kanauj to Okhamandal, her worship travelled with the clan.
Clan profileChavda
Chamundaચામુંડા
The Chavdas honour Chamunda Mata and Toran Mata as their supreme kuldevis. Revered by Vanraj Chavda at Anhilpur Patan, and consecrated at Mehsana (Toran archway) and across Panchasar and Kutch, her worship constitutes the foundational sacred layer of medieval Rajput rule in Gujarat.
Clan profileChauhan
Ashapura & Kalika Mataઆશાપુરા / કાલિકા
The Chauhans revere Ashapura Mata (from their ancestral seats in Sambhar and Nadol) and Mahakali / Kalika Mata, the presiding goddess atop Pavagadh hill whose divine grace guarded the fortress of Rawal Patai and the Khichi Chauhan houses of Chhota Udepur and Devgadh Baria.
Clan profileSolanki
Kalika / Kshemkalyani Mataક્ષેમકલ્યાણી / કાલિકા
The Chaulukya (Solanki) emperors and cadet branches—including the Raulji and Mahida houses of Godhra and Bakrol—revere Kshemkalyani Mata (enshrined at historic Sojitra) and Kalika Mata as their tutelary guardians, seeking divine guidance in chivalry, statecraft, and battle.
Clan profileSisodia
Baan Mata (Bayan Mata)બાણ માતા
The Guhilot / Sisodia house of Mewar brought the worship of Baan Mata (an aspect of Durga / Hinglaj) wherever their scions established thrones. In the southern state of Dharampur, the Sisodia Maharanas established her shrine as the paramount dynastic protector.
Clan profileFor many Rajputs the clan goddess and the remembered ancestors (Dadas) matter more than the great gods of the temple. Over time, as clans spread and rulers took up other deities, the ’s worship narrowed to the great ritual occasions — but at a marriage, it is still before her that the knot is tied.