HARIDWAR
The Gate Way Of Heaven

KANKHAL & ITS HISTORY

Descending after darsan of the gods and goddesses, pilgrims normally go to the town of Kankhal about a mile away from this, for offering prayers to Mother Sati and Dhakshaneswar Mahadev. This fantastic name means much, and connotation bewilders any hearer. It is interpreted from its root words - Ko Khala - signifying thereby, 'Who is the sinner, who cannot go to heaven, if he treads on this sacred spot? The interrogative sentence, if changed into assertive, implies that every one goes to heaven, if he visits it. Hence the attraction.

It was the capital of Dhaksha Prajapathi, who from this seat assisted his father Brahma in acts of creation. He married his beautiful daughter Sati to Lord Maheswar. Once his son-in-law Maheswar incurred his wrath in not extending due respect in Brahmalok, when others did in the assembly. 

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