{"id":1614,"date":"2016-04-11T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2016-04-11T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T04:35:03","slug":"tungnath-on-way-to-sri-kedarnat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/tungnath-on-way-to-sri-kedarnat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tungnath on way to Sri Badrinath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tungnath<\/strong>\u00a0 temple situated at the highest spot at the height of 3680 meters from the sea at Chandranath Parbat<\/strong>\u00a0, 3 km\u00a0trek\u00a0from Chopta<\/strong> 2700 meters from sea, \u00a0it is dedicated\u00a0to lord Shiva it is more than one thousand years old and of high importance of being at the\u00a0highest\u00a0elevation in the world<\/strong>\u00a0and one of the Panch Kedars<\/strong> of lord Shiva, legend is when Pandva<\/strong> brothers<\/strong> were searching lord Shiva<\/strong> who went in hiding at Guptkashi<\/strong> and when Bhim<\/strong> recognized him among the bulls , lord Shiva<\/strong> dived in the earth , at Kedarnath<\/strong> his back in the form of hump is worshiped<\/strong> , here at\u00a0Tungnath<\/strong> \u00a0lord Shiva’s arms<\/strong> appeared and are worshiped in that form it \u00a0is a swambhu limgam<\/strong> ( self manifest).\u00a0Head appeared at Rudranath<\/strong> , naval at Madhayamaheswar<\/strong> and Jata (hair) at Kalpeshwer<\/strong>. 1.5 km from here\u00a0Lord<\/strong> Ram<\/strong> meditated \u00a0at Chandrashila peak<\/strong> and Demon King Ravana<\/strong> also meditated here. From Chandrashila peak one can have a beautiful view of Trishul<\/strong> , Chaukhamba<\/strong> and Nanda Devi<\/strong> peaks
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Tungnath Temple<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Lingam<\/strong> here is in form of a black rock tilted slightly<\/strong>\u00a0on left , other idols are of Ma Parvati, The Nandi bull<\/strong> idol is facing the lord Shiva at the entrance , Lord Ganesha idol is on the right side of the entrance , the other idols are of Rishi Vyas and Kal Bhairav . There are also images of five Pandva brothers, the temple is said to be built by one of the Pandva brother Arjun<\/strong> who worshiped here. The temple style is similar to Kedarnath<\/strong> and Guptkashi<\/strong> temple.
\nThis temple was discovered by Adi Guru Shankracharya<\/strong> in eight\u00a0century. In winters the temple is closed and\u00a0symbolic\u00a0of the main deity is\u00a0shifted to Mukunath<\/strong> near Ukhimath<\/strong> .
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Tungnath\u00a0 temple situated at the highest spot at the height of 3680 meters from the sea at Chandranath Parbat\u00a0, 3 km\u00a0trek\u00a0from Chopta 2700 meters from sea, \u00a0it is dedicated\u00a0to lord Shiva it is more than one thousand years old and of high importance of being at the\u00a0highest\u00a0elevation in the world\u00a0and one of the Panch Kedars … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,12,21,22,23,24,25,26,28,29],"tags":[59,271,315,485,504,505,528,612,920,1253,1328,1598,1616,1623,1628,1663,1685,1966,1968,2099,2100,2112,2393,2678,2774,2934,2935,2949,2970],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-char-dham","category-himalayas","category-history","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-sri-badrinath","category-sri-kedarnath","category-trekking","category-uttarakhand","category-yamunotri","category-yatra-chardham-itineraries","tag-adi-guru-shankracharya","tag-beautiful","tag-bhim","tag-chandranath-parbat","tag-chaukhamba","tag-chaukhamba-peak","tag-chopta","tag-demon-king-ravana","tag-guptkashi","tag-kalpeshwer","tag-kedarnath","tag-lord-ganesha","tag-lord-ram","tag-lord-shiva","tag-lord-shivas-arms","tag-ma-parvati","tag-madhyamaheshwar","tag-nanda-devi","tag-nanda-devi-peak","tag-panch-kedar","tag-panch-kedars","tag-pandva-brothers","tag-rudranath","tag-sri-badrinath","tag-swambhu-lingam","tag-trishul","tag-trishul-peak","tag-tungnath-temple","tag-ukhimath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}