| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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| Temples & Legends
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DEOGHAR |
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| Lest Shiva's
anger and frantic movements should destroy the world, Vishnu cut the dead body with his
discus into fifty-two parts, which fell in different parts of India and became
Mahapithasthans. According to the legend, the heart of Sati fell at Deoghar. It is,
however, peculiar that there is no shrine at the other fifty-one places to commemorate
this occurrence. Another legend is that, in the first age of the world, Lord Shiva
manifested himself as a lingam of light at twelve different places under different names,
and Baidyanath was one of those twelve places. Sati worshipped the emblem in the form of a
pandanus flower on the top of the lingam and dwelt for a long t1ime in a grove close by in
order to worship it. This place is called Ketakivana.
The temple of Baidyanath faces the east and is a plain tone structure with a pyramidal
tower, which rises from a square base to a height of 72 feet from the ground. To the east
of the northern verandah of the temple there is a. large vat into which flows the water
and milk offered as ablution. |
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