Date : 3rd February 2011
Start : Amarkantak
End : Maharajpur
Distance : 228 km
Amarkantak = >
Day started early. First a wash (स्नान) in Narmada Kund.
Then a walk of around 2KM to Maika Bagicha(माई का बगीचा). Its a lush green jungle , monkeys running around , people chanting Narmade Hara.
One need to be careful not to cross narmada accidently and hence a guide is advisable.
Though the Maika bagicha went to the source/Ugam (उगम).
There are 3 Kunda here , this is where the Narmada river starts. A beautiful idol of child Narmada (बाल स्वरूप) is worshiped here.
Along with many other parikramawasi's we had a nice long prayer here.
Filled bottles with the Narmada water as Tirth (तीर्थ).
There is also a Aakhanda Dhuni here.
From here we walked through the jungle to the 'Shon' ugam temple.
There's some story that Shon , the son of Brahmadev was supposed to be married to Narmada..and so on :)
There is a huge idol of lord Hanuman here.
Also shops of Herbal medicines found in the jungle around.
From here walked to the Yantra Mandir (यंत्र मंदिर). This has a very unique architecture.
From there to a group of temple called as Pataleshwar temple.
It is said that only in month of Shravan , for a time of one hour , a small river flows from the Pataleshwar temple.
Just opposite to this is Narmada Temple. A group of white colored temples.
Narmada river which starts from Maika Bagicha disappears and reappears in the Narmada temple.
This temple is in center of Narmada river and hence parikramawasis cannot visit it , as it would be counted as crossing the river.
So now we were on the south bank of river Narmada.
While walking along the south bank one Gurumaharaj offered us Tea , he also gave us 3 Jatadhari (जटाधारी) some hairy herbs which he told us to carry along the parikrama.
Along the banks we saw plantation of Naspati plants and creepers of Brahmi.
So after completing the walk of around 8 to 10 km we reached a place where I had already parked the car on the south bank.
At around 1.30pm we started for Maharajpur.
Here the road was extremely bad in between , with clouds of dust rising on us. Reached Maharajpur at around 7.30pm.
We crossed the Banjara river to reach the Pawar Dharmashala where we spent the night.
Start : Amarkantak
End : Maharajpur
Distance : 228 km
Amarkantak = >
Day started early. First a wash (स्नान) in Narmada Kund.
Then a walk of around 2KM to Maika Bagicha(माई का बगीचा). Its a lush green jungle , monkeys running around , people chanting Narmade Hara.
One need to be careful not to cross narmada accidently and hence a guide is advisable.
Though the Maika bagicha went to the source/Ugam (उगम).
There are 3 Kunda here , this is where the Narmada river starts. A beautiful idol of child Narmada (बाल स्वरूप) is worshiped here.
Along with many other parikramawasi's we had a nice long prayer here.
Filled bottles with the Narmada water as Tirth (तीर्थ).
There is also a Aakhanda Dhuni here.
There's some story that Shon , the son of Brahmadev was supposed to be married to Narmada..and so on :)
There is a huge idol of lord Hanuman here.
Also shops of Herbal medicines found in the jungle around.
From here walked to the Yantra Mandir (यंत्र मंदिर). This has a very unique architecture.
From there to a group of temple called as Pataleshwar temple.
It is said that only in month of Shravan , for a time of one hour , a small river flows from the Pataleshwar temple.
Just opposite to this is Narmada Temple. A group of white colored temples.
Narmada river which starts from Maika Bagicha disappears and reappears in the Narmada temple.
This temple is in center of Narmada river and hence parikramawasis cannot visit it , as it would be counted as crossing the river.
So now we were on the south bank of river Narmada.
While walking along the south bank one Gurumaharaj offered us Tea , he also gave us 3 Jatadhari (जटाधारी) some hairy herbs which he told us to carry along the parikrama.
Along the banks we saw plantation of Naspati plants and creepers of Brahmi.
So after completing the walk of around 8 to 10 km we reached a place where I had already parked the car on the south bank.
At around 1.30pm we started for Maharajpur.
We crossed the Banjara river to reach the Pawar Dharmashala where we spent the night.
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