Lohadanda Tirtha
This holy place is on the chandrabhaga river in front of pundalik temple..it is said that.stone boat floats on river in this place . story about this holy place is as follows – Lord Indra took the appearance like gautam rishi and violated his wife Ahalya’s chastity. Gautam rishi cursed his wife into a stone and cursed Indra to suffer from disease all over his body. Ahalya became free from curse by the touch of lord Ramchandra’s feet. Indra approached bhagvan Vishnu for help. Bhagvan Vishnu gave a iron rod in the hand of Indra and told him to go for a pilgrimage. Bhagvan Vishnu also blessed him “The holy river in which this rod will float,that will give you relief from this disease . After traveling lots of holy place Indra reached this place. In this place the iron rod floated and Indra took bath here . After taking bath Indra became free from curse and disease. In this way this the place got the name as LOHADANDA TIRTHA.
Lakhubai Temple
This temple is rukmini’s temple. This is a place where she performed tapasya being unhappy with Lord Krishna at Dwarka. This place is also known as dindirvan.
Lord Ram Temple
This temple is built to remind of Lord Rama’s visit to Pandharpur in his exile while he was searching for mother Sita.
Mallikarjun Temple
This pastime is even before Lord vitthal came here. Once a great demon of the name dindirav after getting blessings of many gods started troubling all directions. All the gods pleaded to Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu appeared as Mallikarjun, the son of king shri Chandra. Shri Chandra performed tapasya to lord shiva wanting to have a son like Lord Vishnu. In answer to his prayers Lord Vishnu came as child Mallikarjun. at the age of 20,Lord came to this forest for hunting and was challenged by demon Dindirav. The fight lasted for thousand years. Lord then took a mace of iron rod (loha danda) and hit demon on head. while dying demon chanted unknowingly “Hari Hari”. Being pleased with him lord asked him to ask for a benediction.
Dindirava demon asked “since I was killed by a iron rod (Loha danda),let this place be called as LOHADANDA TIRTHA and this forest gets my name as DINDIRAVAN
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This holy place is on the chandrabhaga river in front of pundalik temple..it is said that.stone boat floats on river in this place . story about this holy place is as follows – Lord Indra took the appearance like gautam rishi and violated his wife Ahalya’s chastity. Gautam rishi cursed his wife into a stone and cursed Indra to suffer from disease all over his body. Ahalya became free from curse by the touch of lord Ramchandra’s feet. Indra approached bhagvan Vishnu for help. Bhagvan Vishnu gave a iron rod in the hand of Indra and told him to go for a pilgrimage. Bhagvan Vishnu also blessed him “The holy river in which this rod will float,that will give you relief from this disease . After traveling lots of holy place Indra reached this place. In this place the iron rod floated and Indra took bath here . After taking bath Indra became free from curse and disease. In this way this the place got the name as LOHADANDA TIRTHA.
Lakhubai Temple
This temple is rukmini’s temple. This is a place where she performed tapasya being unhappy with Lord Krishna at Dwarka. This place is also known as dindirvan.
Lord Ram Temple
This temple is built to remind of Lord Rama’s visit to Pandharpur in his exile while he was searching for mother Sita.
Mallikarjun Temple
This pastime is even before Lord vitthal came here. Once a great demon of the name dindirav after getting blessings of many gods started troubling all directions. All the gods pleaded to Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu appeared as Mallikarjun, the son of king shri Chandra. Shri Chandra performed tapasya to lord shiva wanting to have a son like Lord Vishnu. In answer to his prayers Lord Vishnu came as child Mallikarjun. at the age of 20,Lord came to this forest for hunting and was challenged by demon Dindirav. The fight lasted for thousand years. Lord then took a mace of iron rod (loha danda) and hit demon on head. while dying demon chanted unknowingly “Hari Hari”. Being pleased with him lord asked him to ask for a benediction.
Dindirava demon asked “since I was killed by a iron rod (Loha danda),let this place be called as LOHADANDA TIRTHA and this forest gets my name as DINDIRAVAN
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lohadanda
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