Place · river confluence tirtha · India
Om Tirtha Omkareshwar Dham, Kailashpur
A reach of the Hasdeo at Kailashpur where the current has cut the shape of the syllable Om into the rock, at a meeting of three streams read as a triveni sangam.
- Date
- 1999
- Periods
- Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.364, 82.548
Worth knowing
The fair here is recent, begun in 1999 and held at Makar Sankranti, which makes it a clear case of a tirtha forming in living memory rather than in deep antiquity.
Connections (2)
- Site adjacencyBalamgadhi, Mendra
The Hasdeo rises on the southern side of the Balamgadhi range and is already wide enough at Kailashpur, some distance downstream, to have cut the Om-shaped channel that the tirtha is named for.
- Site adjacencyAmritdhara
Both are Hasdeo sites: the cut channel at Kailashpur and the ninety-foot fall at Amritdhara, each with a Shiva cult and a winter fair.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026; coordinates supplied by the editor
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