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झरने और  गर्म पानी  के सोते  गढ़वाल  में, विशेषकर  ऊपरी गढ़वाल  में बहुत  आम दृश्य  है। हिमानी  ऊंचाइयों  में गर्म  पानी के  स्रोतों  की मौजूदगी  प्रकृति  का एक  अद्भुत  चमत्कार  है।

इनमें से अधिकांश गर्म सोते चार धाम में या उसके चारों ओर मौजूद हैं। गंगोत्री के लिए गर्म पानी के स्रोत गंगोत्री के मार्ग पर, युमनोत्री के लिए यमुनोत्री में, बद्रीनाथ के लिए बद्रीनाथ में और केदारनाथ के लिए गौरीकुंड में स्थित हैं।

 पूजा से पहले स्नान आवश्यक है और ऐसे ऊंचे एवं ठंडे इलाकों में इन गर्म पानी के सोतों के कारण यह एक खुशगवार अनुभव बन जाता है। थके हुए ट्रेकरों और पर्वतारोहियों के लिए ये स्रोत एक वरदान हैं।




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ये रास्ते हैं गौरीकुंड से केदारनाथ धाम जाने के लिए




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At 6500 feet, Gauri Kund is the roadhead for Kedarnath, another nine miles further up the path.  Kedarnath is sacred to Shiva, and Gauri Kund ("Gauri's Pool") is connected with Shiva's wife Parvati, also known as Gauri.

 In  Hindu mythology, Gauri first tries to attract Shiva with her beauty, but when that fails (since Shiva is the model yogis) she began to carry out ascetic and yogic practices to win him in that way.

 Local tradition claims that this is the spot where Gauri lived while carrying out these practices, it was here that Shiva finally revealed his love for her, and the pair were married at Triyugi Narayan, which is 10 miles away.

This photo shows the ornamental gateway with the lion motifs; you can see that the temple is built at a lower level than the surrounding plaza.



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Here's a little more angled shot to give a better view of the temple as whole.  It's not very large, and shows similar architectural features with other Himalayan temples:

a low entrance hall, a taller tower in the back (covered with a a wooden-framed cap, bright colors, and a guardian figure (probably Bhairava) over the doorway.  The garlands were part of the decorations for Diwali (which included some strings of colored lights).

Just as the Kedarnath temple closes for the winter, so does this one too--an image of Gauri is taken further down to a nearby village, where she is worshipped during the winter months.

Here it is clear how the decorative sandstone railing helps to define and demarcate the temple space. 



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Where Parvati is, Shiva is never very far, and he is enshrined in this humble little temple across from the Gauri temple.  It's not very large, but nicely painted and decorated.  The verses painted on the outside come from the Shiva Purana, and give the names and locations of the 12 jyotirlingas--sites especially sacred to Shiva. They are:


      Somnath--(Saurashtra in Gujarat)


      Mahakaleshvar (Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh)


      Omkareshvar (Omkara Island in the Narmada River)


      Vaidyanath (Deoghar, Bihar)


      Bhimashankaram (Maharashtra)

      Rameshvaram (Tamil Nadu)


      Nagesham ( Jageshwar, (Almora))
   
      Vishveshvaram (Benares)
   

      Tryambakam (near Nasik)
   

      Kedarnath (Himalaya)
   

      Dhushmesha (near Ellora)

 

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