Place · pilgrim bathing-tirtha · India
Parasuram Kund
Also known as Parshuram Kund
Parasuram Kund on the Brahmaputra tributary Lohit at the foot of the Dhauladhar range in Lohit district is the tirtha where, in the Kalika Purana account, the warrior-sage Parashurama bathed to wash off the sin of killing his mother Renuka at his father Jamadagni's command, striking the ground with his axe to open the river bed itself. Pilgrims from across India arrive on Makar Sankranti each January to bathe in the sub-zero water — the largest annual pilgrimage event anywhere in Arunachal Pradesh, drawing fifty to seventy thousand devotees. The 1950 Assam earthquake sheared off the old rock amphitheatre of the kund; the current pool is a reconstructed basin downstream.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.910, 96.383
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyBomdila
Parasuram Kund in Lohit district and Bomdila in West Kameng district are the two annual pan-Indian pilgrim destinations of Arunachal Pradesh — Parasuram Kund for the Makar Sankranti bath each January that draws fifty to seventy thousand devotees, Bomdila for the Gaden Rabgyel Ling monastery of the sixth Reting Rinpoche and the gateway it provides to Tawang. The two sit at the eastern and western edges of the state, five hundred kilometres apart along National Highway 13 — the trans-Arunachal highway that passes through almost every district headquarters.
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