{"id":1649,"date":"2016-04-06T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T04:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2016-04-06T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T04:30:56","slug":"dev-prayag-on-way-to-yatra-chardham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/dev-prayag-on-way-to-yatra-chardham\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Prayag on way to Yatra Chardham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDev Prayag<\/strong> is the first Prayag ( confluence ) it is 70 km\u00a0from Rishikesh<\/strong> at a height of 830 meters from sea , it is here the river Alaknanda<\/strong> and Bhagirathi<\/strong> meets, \u00a0forms the name Ganga<\/strong> to flow towards Rishikesh<\/strong> into the plains of\u00a0North India. It is one of the\u00a0Panch Prayag (five<\/strong> sacred confluences)<\/strong> in the hills and is an important place of pilgrimage for devout Hindu. It is a beautiful village, on the lower side is the Prayag and on the upper side of village is a pyramid \u00a0shape stone built temple\u00a0dedicated\u00a0to Raghunath<\/strong> Ji<\/strong> Legend is that King Dashrath<\/strong> and lord Ram<\/strong> worshiped here and the temple is built at this place. just before the confluence on Bhagirathi river<\/strong> is the Brham Kund<\/strong> and on Alaknanda is the Vashistha Kun<\/strong>d . It is also said that\u00a0Leprosy is cured if the affected person takes a bath on\u00a0a rock called Baital shila<\/strong> on the banks here.
\nIt is also famous for the astronomy observatory with age old instruments used for astronomy calculations established by\u00a0Acharya Pt.<\/strong> Chakradhar Joshi<\/strong> in 1946, having two Telescopes and\u00a0latest equipment along with a\u00a0library with a collections of books and manuscripts as old as 17th centenary, it also has the ancient equipment like Surya Ghati, Jal Ghati and Dhruv Ghati, it is situated at\u00a0a mountain called Dashrathanchal<\/strong>
\nThere are few more temples worth visiting are Danda Naggaraja<\/strong> \u00a0(the Snake Lord ) and Chandrabadni temple<\/strong>. \u00a0Dhaneshwar Mahadev<\/strong> temple and\u00a0Mata Bhuvneshwari temple<\/strong>
\nThe cuisines of Devprayag are also rich and famous as Devprayag. Dishes like Singori and Bal Mithai<\/strong>\u00a0, Singori, traditionally made with khoya<\/strong> wrapped in form of a cone with Maalu leaves<\/strong>. The khoya absorbs the fragrance of Maalu leaves. Bal Mithai is a brown chocolate-like fudge, made with roasted khoya, coated with white sugar balls.
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\nWebsite :\u00a0yatrachardham.com ; promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Dev Prayag is the first Prayag ( confluence ) it is 70 km\u00a0from Rishikesh at a height of 830 meters from sea , it is here the river Alaknanda and Bhagirathi meets, \u00a0forms the name Ganga to flow towards Rishikesh into the plains of\u00a0North India. It is one of the\u00a0Panch Prayag (five sacred confluences) … →<\/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":[2,5,7,11,12,16,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,29],"tags":[50,90,221,271,282,386,460,484,495,497,578,592,631,646,810,1374,1793,2032,2034,2101,2213,2332,3110],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-char-dham","category-gangotri","category-himalayas","category-history","category-monuments","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-sri-badrinath","category-sri-kedarnath","category-trekking","category-uttarakhand","category-wildlife","category-yatra-chardham-itineraries","tag-acharya-pt","tag-alaknanda","tag-baital-shila","tag-beautiful","tag-bhagirathi","tag-brham-kund","tag-chakradhar-joshi","tag-chandrabadni-temple","tag-chardham","tag-chardham-route","tag-danda-ngaraggaja","tag-dashrathanchal","tag-dev-prayag","tag-dhaneshwar-mahadev-temple","tag-ganga","tag-king-dashrath","tag-mata-bhubneswari-devi-temple","tag-nort-india","tag-north-india","tag-panch-prayag","tag-raghunath-ji","tag-rishikesh","tag-yatra-chardham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}