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Jyotisar, on the bank of Jyotisar Sarovar wetland, is a Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kurukshetra in Haryana state of India.According to Hindu tradition, Krishna delivered the sermon of Bhagavad Gita – the doctrine of Karma and Dharma to his wavering friend Arjuna to guide him to resolve his ethical dilemma [1] [2] and revealed his vishvarupa (universal form) to him.
Vishvarupa (Sanskrit: विश्वरूप, romanized: Viśvarūpa, lit. 'universal form'), [ 1 ] also spelt as Vishwaroopa and known as Virāḍrūpa , is an iconographical form and theophany of a Hindu deity , most commonly associated with Vishnu in contemporary Hinduism .
Kurukshetra is an important Hindu pilgrimage destination, and there are several pilgrimage sites surrounding the city. The Hindi phrase 48 kos parikrama refers to a roughly 90-km traditional circle ( Parikrama ) around the holy city (1 kos equals about 3.00 km or 1.91 miles), and a complete parikrama refers to a pilgrimage to all these sites on ...
Although the Kurukshetra War is not mentioned in Vedic literature, its prominence in later literature led British Indologist A. L. Basham to conclude that there was a great battle at Kurukshetra which, "magnified to titanic proportions, formed the basis of the story of the greatest of India's epics, the Mahābhārata". Acknowledging that later ...
Kurukshetra district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. The town of Kurukshetra , a sacred place for the Hindus , is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district occupies an area of 1530.00 km 2 .
Map of the 48 kos parikrama (approx. 96 miles circle) around Kurukshetra (at Ban Ganga/Bhishma Kund). The 48 kos parikrama is a parikrama (a circumbabulatory pilgrimage) of various Mahabharata-related and other Vedic-era tirthas (Hindu sacred sites) around the Hindu holy city of Kurukshetra in the state of Haryana, India.
Kurukshetra is a city in Haryana, India, a prominent region in ancient Indian literature. Kurukshetra may also refer to: Kurukshetra district, a district of Haryana, India; Kurukshetra (Lok Sabha constituency), an Indian parliamentary constituency; Kurukshetra, 1946 Hindi epic poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
[5] [6] One of the 3 shortest episodes within the epic, the Mausala Parva describes the demise of Krishna in the 36th year after the Kurukshetra War had ended, the submersion of Dvaraka under the sea, the death of Balarama by drowning in the sea, Vasudeva's death, and a civil war fought among the Yadava clan that killed many of them.