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Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Har Ki Pauri

Modern day huge temple famous as HAR KI PAURI with a lot of Hindu Deities built on the banks of RIVER TAWI is located at the state capital city JAMMU (City of Temples) in the Indian state of JAMMU & KASHMIR. This temple is named after the popular Bathing Ghat ‘Har ki Pauri’ in Haridwar.
This Har ki Pauri Temple is famous for its large idols of Gods and Goddesses hence it is attracted by a huge number of devotees nowadays due to its magnificent idols and enshrines idols of almost all the Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism.
First is the river bank named as Ganga Ghat despite the fact that river flow over here is Tawi.
The entrance of the main temple has a shrine for Shanidev. The temple has a lot of Akhand-deeps (Lamps) in various places. The temple complex is divided into three sections.
The first section of the temple has a glorious and huge idol of Lord Ganesh on the temple roof even visible from a long distance outside the temple. This section enshrines the deity of Goddess Chamunda Devi sitting on lion. On either side of this main shrine there are idols/shrines of Lord Surya (Sun God), Dharma, Yama, Chitragupta, Goddess Santoshi, Saraswati-Lakshmi-Ganesh and Lord Shiva getting alms from Annapurna. There is a separate shrine where Goddess Chamunda is in the sleeping posture along with the idols of Lord Vishnu and Naga (Snake) are found near this shrine.
The second section of the temple roof has the big idol of Lord Hanuman which is visible even from outside the temple. This section of the temple is named as "Rameswar" which enshrines one huge Shiva Linga encircled by ten small Shiva Lingas and behind theses Lingas the deities of Ram, Lakshman and Hanuman are enshrined performing puja to Shiva Lingas. The shrines/idols of Vaishno Devi, Bhadra Kali, Ganga and Tawi are also found in this section.
The third section of the temple is named as Char Dham. The main shrine of this section has a big idol of Vasudeva. There are other shrines/idols such as Mansa Devi & Ganesh, Puri style Krishna-Baldev-Subhadra, Tirupati Balaji, Badrinarayan along with Nar-Narayan, Garud, Lakshmi & Narad, Kedarnath Linga along with Parvati, Radha-Krishna, baby Krishna, a big Shiva Linga idol named Pashupatinath, Shiva-Parvati-Ganesh, Vittal (Vitthal) along with Rukmini (Rukmani), Shravan Kuman and his Parents, Dwarakadheesh etc.


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