Day 11 – 2nd February 2011

Date : 2nd February 2011
Start : Sahadol
End  : Amarkantak
Distance :   141 km

We left from Shahadol at aroud 8am. The road was good.

On the way around 70KM before Amarkantak we visited a coal mine. Dhanpuri Open Cast mine. Clicked some pics over there.

Over to Amarkantak (अमरकंटक). This is where the river Narmada is born/started(उगमस्थान). So this is a place of much importance.

This is where the parikramawasi will walk around to the other side (south side) of the river.

Extreme caution has to be taken here not to cross the river over here because here the river is quite small.

1st we visited Kapil Dhara which is 6KM from Amarkantak. We took a guide to help us the way and take care that mistakenly we dont cross the river. At KapilDhara there is a temple of Kapil Muni, also Maa Durga temple and a Aakhanda dhuni (अखंड धुनी).

A waterfall further is called as Dugdhadhara (दुग्धधारा). There is a temple of Durwas muni.

Then we went to a temple around 10KM from Amarkantak - Jaleshwar Mahadev mandir an also a Jain Mandir which is under construction, This has a mahavir statue of 8 metals(अष्ट धातू) weighing 28 tons.

In the evening we visited Kalyan Asshram.This is very beautiful and peaceful. Also attended the aarti over here.

We were still on the North bank of the river.

The plan for next day was to do the pooja and go around to the south side of the river.

Here we stayed in the Jain Dharmashala.