For the creation of the universe the Shiv element brought forth the Sati. Sati took birth at the house of Daksh Prajapati. She married lord Shiva. Daksha organized a huge Yagna, and to spite Shiva, did not invite him. Sati still went to that Yagna at her fathers without invitation. She and lord Shiva were insulted again and unable to bear that Sati jumped into the Yagna pyre and embraced fire. Lord Shiva became very angry and carrying the body of Sati on his shoulders, he started the Tandav. The entire world shook and panicked. To save the world, Lord Vishnu cut the body of Sati into 51 parts with his Sudarshan Chakra and wherever these parts fell, a Shaktipeeth was establishd.
Before jumping into the Yagna pyre, Sati had wished to marry lord Shiva in the next birth also. After the death of Sati Lord Shiva became a hermit. The Tarkasur demon was terrorizing the world. He got the boon from Brahmaji that he can be killed only by the son of Shiva. Gods got Lord Shiva ready to remarry. Sati took second birth at Maina and Himalayas house and came to be known as Parvati-Uma. After very arduous meditation she got married to Shiva. Their son Kartik destroyed Tarkasur.
From the body of Maa Umiya fifty one Shakipeeth were established. In the second incarnation Shiva established the temple of Maa at Unjha, which is her unbroken incarnation and not the Shakipeeth of the body parts. The wishes come true when prayers are offered here.
Lord Shiva went to kill Demons along with Uma. He brought Uma on the banks of the Saraswati. Uma made fifty two earthen statues. Lord Shiva breathed life into those. These 52 people became the Great Men of the Kadva Patidar Community. Maa Uma became the Kuldevi of Kadva Patidars. She gave them the blessings of happiness, prosparity, growth and her promise to reaching to them at the hour of their need and as and when they remember her. Lord Shiva established Maa Uma at the Umapur.
The patidars settled in the state of Gujarat from BC 1200 to 1250. They always prayed to Maa Umiya. The Goddess Ushadevi, worshipped as the Goddess of Wealth and prosparity, in the Vedas is Maa Umadevi only. On every Aso Sud 8, in the temple of Maa Umiya at Unjha, the Palli are filled. In the neighboring villages also they fill.
