Place · Shakta pitha · India
Manibandh
Where Sati's wrist bracelets fell. At the Gayatri temple on Pushkar's outskirts near Ajmer, the Gayatri Devi is worshipped. The pitha ties Pushkar's Brahma temple geography, unusual in Hindu India, to a Shakta layer and connects Rajasthan's principal tirtha to the pan-Indian Devi network.
Shakti
- Periods
- Classical and Puranic Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Shakta pitha tradition; Tantra Chudamani / Devi Bhagavata enumeration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.487, 74.548
On these journeys
Sources
D.C. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas (1948, rev. 1973), and the pīṭha lists of the Devī Bhāgavata and the Pīṭhanirṇaya.
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