{"id":2956,"date":"2014-02-20T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:58:38","slug":"bhalka-teerath-somnath-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/bhalka-teerath-somnath-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhalka Teerath, Somnath, Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bhalka Teerath<\/strong> is in <strong>Veraval near Somnath<\/strong> . Legend is at this place <strong>Lord Krishna<\/strong> after the Mahabharata war was over he left \u00a0Mathura to save and protect his people, established Dwarka on the Sea shores as his capital , <strong>Veraval<\/strong> is called<strong> Prabhas Kshetra<\/strong> , \u00a0one day he was having his <strong>dhyan<\/strong> \u00a0under a <strong>Peepal tree<\/strong> with his back resting \u00a0on tree trunk sitting on a deer skin with his left foot over his right leg , a hunter named <strong>Jara <\/strong>was<strong>\u00a0<\/strong> in search of \u00a0some animal to be hunted , he misunderstood the foot \u00a0of Lord Krishna to be an eye of a deer and shot an arrow (<strong> in Gujarati arrow means Bhall<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Baan<\/strong> ) and badly injured the Lord , \u00a0\u00a0realizing his mistake he apologized to Lord but Lord Krishna told him that it is not a mistake , but it was his own deeds of previous births he was paying off . <strong>He ( Zara )<\/strong> was Monkey<strong> King Bali<\/strong> brother of <strong>Sugreev<\/strong> , he was killed by him with a shot of an arrow , hiding behind the trees in<strong> his ( Lord Krishna)<\/strong> previous incarnation as <strong>Ram\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5515\/12286177364_dee7fe0f8e.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhalka Teerath , Veraval, Somnath<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Lord Krishna appeared before the hunter \u00a0Zara ,\u00a0holding conch, chakra, mace and padma in his four hands , \u00a0The Viraat Roop Lord Vishnu .<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7321\/12286309656_01b5c02991.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhalka Teerath Temple with Holy Peepal Tree<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nAfter<strong> Lord Krishna<\/strong> was badly injured he walked some distance to<strong> Prabhas Patan the Triveni<\/strong> , confluence of river<strong> Hiranya , Kapila and Saraswati <\/strong>\u00a0and breathed his last and at same place he was cremated<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3674\/12046520384_6f59e1b02e.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balram Gufa ( Cave) Bhalka Teerath Somnath<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe place where<strong> \u00a0Balarama (Incarnation of Sheshnag )<\/strong>\u00a0also known as<strong> Baldev<\/strong> , Lord Krishna&#8217;s elder brother departed from the earth \u00a0in his \u00a0serpent form after Lord Krishna left for<strong> Nijdham ( Heavenly abode)<\/strong>. This is marked by an ancient holy cave called <strong>\u201cDauji-ni Gufa<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3779\/12609644935_a0b044a2e8.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triveni Ghats , cremation site of Lord Krishna<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>For more information and packages contact <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">+91-9810506646<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Callers from outside India <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">+ 44 7700093414<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Email:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> promark@promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Website:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> www.promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhalka Teerath is in Veraval near Somnath . Legend is at this place Lord Krishna after the Mahabharata war was over he left \u00a0Mathura to save and protect his people, established Dwarka on the Sea shores as his capital , Veraval is called Prabhas Kshetra , \u00a0one day he was having his dhyan \u00a0under a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/bhalka-teerath-somnath-gujarat\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,12,13,16,1],"tags":[224,225,293,295,459,594,1061,1069,1106,1285,1606,1616,1633,1709,2016,2138,2174,2175,2465,2546,2748,2931,3027,3041,3129],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-humanity","category-monuments","category-uncategorized","tag-baldave","tag-bali","tag-bhalka-teerath","tag-bhall-baan","tag-chakra","tag-dauji-ni-gufa","tag-hiranya","tag-holy-cave","tag-india","tag-kapila","tag-lord-krishna","tag-lord-ram","tag-lord-vishnu","tag-mahabharata","tag-nijdham-heavenly","tag-peepal-tree","tag-prabhas-kshetra","tag-prabhas-pattan","tag-saraswati","tag-sheshnag","tag-sugreev","tag-treveni","tag-veraval","tag-virat-roop","tag-zara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}