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Kunjapuri Devi Shakti Peeth | Uttarakhand

The Kunjapuri Mata Mandir, nestled high up in the Shivalik mountains in Uttarakhand, is a temple dedicated to the mother goddess and is one of the Shakti Peethas in the Indian subcontinent. What is a Shakti Peeth?

1. Kali as the supreme deity worshiped by Indra, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

Walters Art Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_-_Kali_as_the_Supreme_Deity_-_Walters_W897.jpg


2. Aranya Devi Temple, Arrah

JaggaDaaku, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aranya_Devi_Temple,_Arrah.jpg


3. Shakambhari Shakta pithas Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh

don’t know, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80.jpg


4. Goddess Shakti Tempera on cloth from Nepal, c.1800

From the Walter Art Museum

https://art.thewalters.org/object/F.141/


5.Lord Shiva  meditating statue at Rishikesh 

Unknown authorUnknown authorIqbal Mohammed, CC BY-SA 2.0 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiva_meditating_Rishikesh.jpg


6. Daksha criticising Rudra for insulting him in the Satya Yuga

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daksha_criticizing_Rudra_for_insulting_him_in_the_Satrayaga.jpg


7. Sati confronts Daksha, Daksha yagna

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daksha_yagna.jpg


8. Kalighat Shiva mourns Sati

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalighat_Shiva_mourns_Sati.jpg


9. 19th century lithograph of Shiva carrying Sati’s corpse

19th century painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19th_century_lithograph_of_Shiva_carrying_Sati%27s_corpse.jpg


10. Shiva wandering around holding Sati’s corpse

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dakshayani.jpg


11. Lord Vishnu sitting on a lotus, from Gita Govinda

The Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, see page for license, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vishnu_from_Gita_Govinda.jpg


12. Wall painting of Shiva carrying away Sati, Srikhanda Bhoothnath temple, West Bengal

Sripat Srikhanda, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sati_shiva_bishnu.jpg


13. Kamakshi Amman Temple in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Roshan Varier, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamakshi_Amman_Temple_in_Kancheepuram,_Tamil_Nadu.jpg


14. Jogulamba temple, Alampur town 

NaveenM12, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jogulamba_temple_.jpg


15.  Mahalaxmi Mandir kolhapur

Lovelitjadhav, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahalaxmi_Temple,_Kolhapur.jpg


16. Goddess Shrinkhala temple, Pandua

RajveerSingha1950, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goddess_Shrinkhala_temple,_Pandua.jpg


17. Mahakaleshwar Mandir in Ujjain

Sandeepkr04, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahakaleshwar_Mandir_in_Ujjain.jpg


18. Snow covered peaks of Dehradun

RishabhSanta, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dehradun_Snow_covered_peaks.jpg



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