Experiences labelled with 'shiva temple'
The ancient Hindu epic “The Mahabharata,” tells of a family of five brothers known as the Pandavas who were accused of killing their cousins during the Kurukshetra war. The brothers sought out Lord Shiva to pardon them of this accusation, but Shiva was convinced of their guilt, took the form of a bull, and went into hiding. Shiva re-emerged in five different locations, where the hands, hump, head, stomach, and hair of his bull-body were found. The Pandavas built a Shiva temple, or “Panch Kedar,” at each of these places. I trekked to the temple built in reverence to where the bull's hands are said to have materialized. This is the highest temple in the world, called Tungnath (“the lord of the peaks”). Seated in ...
