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Hinglaj Mata (Hindi: हिंगलाज माता, Balochi: هنگلاج ماتا, Urdu: ہنگلاج ماتا, Sindhi: هنگلاج ماتا, हिग्लाज़ माता मंदिर), also known as Hinglaj Devi, Hingula Devi and Nani Mandir, is a Hindu temple in Hinglaj, a town on the Makran coast in the Lasbela district of Balochistan, and is the middle of the Hingol ...
Sharada Peeth is a ruined Hindu temple and ancient centre of learning located in the Neelum Valley of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. Between the 6th and 12th centuries CE, it was among the most prominent temple universities in the Indian subcontinent .
Shri Hinglaj Mata temple Shakta pitha is the largest Hindu pilgrimage centre in Pakistan. The annual Hinglaj Yatra is attended by more than 250,000 people. [5] Most of these historic places of goddess worship are in India, but there are seven in Bangladesh, four in Nepal, two in Pakistan, and one each in Tibet, Sri Lanka [3] and Bhutan. [6]
Hinglaj Mata – A Shakthi Peeth in Pakistan's Balochistan province; Katasraj temple – Site of a famous temple which has a lake that is said to have been created from the teardrops of Shiva. Also known for being home of the Pandava brothers during part of their exile. Sharada Peeth – An abandoned Shakti Peeth
The major Hindu temples in Pakistan are Shri Hinglaj Mata temple (whose annual Hinglaj Yatra is the largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan, which is participated by more than 250,000 pilgrims), [1] Shri Ramdev Pir temple (whose annual Ramdevpir Mela in the temple is the second largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan, [2] Umarkot Shiv Mandir (famous for its annual Shivrathri festival, which is one ...
Devotees visit this place in large numbers every day. [8] The temple is also known popularly as one of the "three and half Shakti Peethas" of Maharashtra. The temple is also one among the 51 Shakti Peethas located on the Indian subcontinent and is a location where one of Sati's (first wife of Lord Shiva) limbs, her right arm is reported to have ...
The temple was visited by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan during this period. [8] In 1989, for the first time since the independence in 1947, a group of sadhus from the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad visited the temple. [7] Since then, small groups from the Ahmedabad temple pay this temple a visit every few years in a pilgrimage.
Shiva carrying the corpse of Sati Devi. The aforesaid mythology of Daksha yaga and Sati's self immolation is the mythology of origin behind the Shakta pithas.. Shakta pithas are believed to have enshrined with the presence of Shakti due to the falling of body parts of the corpse of Sati Devi, when Lord Shiva carried it and wandered throughout the land in sorrow.