Temples of Gujarat

In the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna's Mathura is worn down by Jarasandha's repeated sieges, and a second enemy is approaching. Krishna decides his people need a fortress no human force can break. After consulting…

• Char Dham

The rakshasa Daruka and his wife, an ogress protected by a boon from Parvati, terrorise Darukavana on the western sea. Driven off the land by the sage Aurva's curse, they move to a city in the ocean and imprison…

• 8 · Dvadasa Jyotirlinga

In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, the goddess is born as Sati, daughter of Daksha, and is married to Shiva. Daksha turns against Shiva and abuses him, and Sati gives up her body in yogic fire. Shiva's anger produces…

Soma — the moon — lost his lustre to a curse. He came to Prabhasa, bathed in the Saraswati where it reaches the sea, and worshipped Shiva at this place until it was restored. The account explains the moon's waxing…

• 1 · Dvadasa Jyotirlinga

Among the figures carved on the Modhera shrine are twelve Gauris, and the ASI guide reads them against the myth of Sati, Daksha and the Himalaya. The Devi Bhagavata Purana tells the core of it in a chapter titled for…