Panch Prayag

पंच प्रयाग

5 places in the tradition. Listed in the order tradition follows. The note at the foot of the page says how much of that order a text actually fixes.

In the traditional order

  1. 1

    Vishnuprayag

    Chamoli, Uttarakhand

  2. 2

    Nandaprayag

    Chamoli, Uttarakhand

  3. 3

    Karnaprayag

    Chamoli, Uttarakhand

  4. 4

    Rudraprayag

    Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand

  5. 5

    Devprayag

    Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand

Where this list and its order comes from

  • Scholarship: Ajay S. Rawat, Garhwal Himalaya, Indus Publishing, 2002, pp. 12–13, via the reference literature, which gives the five in the descending flow sequence of their occurrence: Vishnuprayag, Nandaprayag, Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag, Devprayag. The 'descending flow sequence' phrasing itself carries no inline footnote. en.wikipedia.org · seen 2026-09-18
A note for the curious

Five river confluences, not five temples — members point at the place registry. The enumeration order and the travel order run in opposite directions: the canonical listing follows the Alaknanda downstream from Vishnuprayag, while a pilgrim driving up from Rishikesh meets Devprayag first and Vishnuprayag last, and a state enterprise page calls Devprayag 'the first Prayag on way to Badrinath'. The ordinals here follow the downstream enumeration.

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