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Kālī shrine at Vindhyāchala
The Kali cave shrine at Vindhyachal, the third point of a triune goddess circuit with Vindhyavasini on the riverbank and Ashtabhuja on the hill, which the pilgrim must complete in order. Cave shrines of this kind are usually the oldest layer at any goddess site.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Local goddess tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 25.152, 82.495
Worth knowing
The three-shrine circuit, the Trikona Parikrama, is walked in a single night and traces a triangle on the ground that the practice treats as a yantra. Vindhyavasini is one of the Shakta pithas and the cave is the part that is not in any pan-Indian list, which is the usual relationship between local and enumerated sanctity.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Vindhyachal”. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas (1948); Cynthia Humes on the Vindhyachal circuit and its Devi-Mahatmya readings.
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