AMARNATH TEMPLE - WAXING AND WANING IMAGE

This rare phenomenon has been highly applauded by even other religions and they recorded it with inexplicable joy. The famous An-i - Akari of Abul Fazl embodies this rare phenomenon with great gusto.  "Amarnath is considered a shrine of g cat sanctity. When the new moon rises, from her throne of rays, a bubble as it were of ice is formed in the cave which daily increases little by little for fifteen days, till it is some what higher than two yards, of the measure of yard determined by His Majesty: with the waning of moon the image likewise begins to decrease, till no trace of it remains when the moon disappears". Needless to prolong that every national who visits it, expresses his infinite joy in such terms, bearing testimony to his acceptance of the divinity presiding in the cave.

Location: This cave temple lies KM off Pahalgam accessible by walking.

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