Char Dham

Badrinath Dwarka Puri Rameswaram

Char Dham

Char Dham ( Hindi : चार धाम Cār Dhām = "four places") is the name of a group of four Hindu pilgrimage sites in India . A trip to all four places of pilgrimage, which are also called dhāmans , is of great merit for devout Hindus. Some temples are only approved for Hindus.

geography

The four places of pilgrimage can be found in all four directions of India and were once combined by Adi Shankara to form a sacred geography, which at the same time roughly marks the outer borders of today's India. The Badrinath Temple can be found in the north, the Dwarkadhish Temple in the west, the Jagannath Temple in the east of India and the Ramanathaswami Temple in the south of the subcontinent.

Consecration

Two temples are dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu ( Badrinath and Puri ), one to the god Shiva ( Rameswaram ) and one to the god Krishna ( Dwarka ).

See also

• Chota Char Dham

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  Badrinath Temple in Badrinath

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  Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka

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  Jagannath Temple in Puri

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  Ramanathaswami Temple in Rameswaram

literature

• Char Dham Yatra by GR Venkatraman, published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1988
• Chardham Yatra by Savitri Dubey, published by Alekh Prakashan
• Hinduism by Angelika Malinar

Web links

• Dilipkumar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chakravarti: The Concept of Rudra-Śiva Through The Ages (Delhi 1994) . Ed .: M. Chakravarti ,. Delhi 1994, p. 140 .
2. ↑ SM Bhardwaj / JG Lochtefeld: Thirta . In: S. Mittal (Ed.): The Hindu World . New York 2004, p. 482 .