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Specialty of this temple is that the Idol of Shriram is in the form of a child and lying asleep on a swing.
‘In the ancient times, Bharatiya Sages were aware that the planets revolving around the sun have an effect on human life.
The state of Tripura has acquired its popular name from Tripurasundari Devi. Shri Tripurasundari Devi’s temple is located at Matabari village near Udaipur city in Tripura State. This is one of the 51 Shaktipeethas (Seats of Divine Energy). Here, tows of Devi Sati’s left foot had fallen.
There is a lamp at Vaishanv temple which has been burning for the past 222 years.
Ganapatipura in Gujarat is the home of the swayambhu Shri Ganesha, worshipped by Shrikrishna and the Pandavas.
One of the 51 seats of Divine Energy (Shaktipeethas), the temple of Shri Hingalajmata lies in a thickly forested valley in the Lari Taluka of Balochistan in Pakistan. This temple situated in a mountain cavern of the Makran Desert on the banks of River Hingol is sacred to millions of Hindus. This is where the Brahmarandhra (aperture on the crown of the head) of Devi Sati had fallen.
‘5 out of 51 seats of Divine Energy (Shaktipeeth) viz. Bakureshwar, Nalhati, Bandikeshwari, Fuloradevi and Tarapeeth are in the Birbhum District of West Bengal. The pupil (tara) of Devi Sati’s third eye fell under a white silk cotton tree (bombax tree) in the premises of a crematorium on the banks River Dwarka. That is why it is known as the Tarapeeth.
Shri Baglamukhi is one of ten great vidyas (Sciences). The temple of Shri Baglamukhi Devi is situated in Kangada district in Himachal Pradesh in a village named Bankhandi. The Idol of the Devi is exactly as described in the Pandu script.
Shakti (Divine Energy) not associated with any Deities is Kumari. An example ofsuch a Deity is Kanyakumari.