Bhalka
Bhalka Tirtha | |
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भालका तीर्थ | |
Gir Somnath | |
Deity | Krishna |
Governing body | Shree Somnath Trust |
Location | |
Location | Veraval |
State | Gujarat |
Country | India |
Geographic coordinates | 20°53′16.9″N 70°24′5.0″E / 20.888028°N 70.401389°E |
Website | |
somnath.org |
Bhalka Tirtha (transl. Bhalka pilgrimage), located in
Bhalka is located just 4 KM from Somnath Temple, a Jyotirlinga, situated in Veraval, Gujarat, India.
The site also has ancient history as Prabhas Patan was occupied during the Indus Valley Civilisation, 2000–1200 BCE.
Background
According to
After 36 years passed, a fight broke out between the Yadavas, at a festival, who killed each other. His elder brother, Balarama, left his body through Yoga. Krishna retired into the forest and started meditating under a tree. The Mahabharata also narrates the story of a hunter who becomes an instrument for Krishna's departure from the world. The hunter Jara mistook Krishna's partly visible left foot for that of a deer, and shot an arrow, mortally wounding him. After Jara realised his mistake, while still bleeding, Krishna told Jara, "O Jara, you were Vali in your previous birth, killed by myself as Rama in Treta Yuga. Here you had a chance to even it and since all acts in this world are done as desired by me, you need not worry for this". Then Krishna, with his physical body[5] ascended back to his eternal abode, Goloka and this event marks departure of Krishna from the earth.[6][7][8] The news was conveyed to Hastinapur and Dwaraka by eyewitnesses to this event.[5] The place of this incident is believed to be Bhalka, near Somnath temple.[1][2]
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Story
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Location
Bhalka Teerth is situated almost 4 kilometres away from the Somnath temple. Presently the government has planned to develop this temple also into a major tourist attraction.[1]
Somnath/Veraval City/Bhalka is very well connected via road and rail network. The nearest railway station is Veraval[13] and the nearest airports are Diu & Rajkot. Bus services are available from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Dwarka etc.
Gallery
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Bhalka Teerth
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Sign Board depicting the importance of the place
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Sign Board depicting the importance of the place
See also
Notes
- ^ The Bhagavata Purana (1.18.6),[9] Vishnu Purana (5.38.8),[10] and Brahma Purana (2.103.8)[11] state that the day Krishna left the earth was the day that the Dvapara Yuga ended and the Kali Yuga began.
References
- ^ a b c "Bhalka Tirth". Somnath Trust. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ a b "Gujarat Tourism". Gujarat Tourism. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "Lord Krishna's Disappearance, Disappearance of Lord Krishna, Life Span of Lord Krishn, Disappearance of Sri Krishna". Happywink.org. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ "MAHABHARATA -Krishna's Return to Heaven". Urday.in. Archived from the original on 24 April 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Srimad Bhagavatam :: Conto 11 - The Ascension of Lord Krishna". Bhagavatam.in. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ Bryant 2007, pp. 148
- ^ Kisari Mohan Ganguli (2006). "The Mahabharata (originally published between 1883 and 1896)". Sacred Texts. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
Book 16: Mausala Parva Sections 4-8
- ISBN 0-8426-0822-2.
- ^ "Skanda I, Ch. 18: Curse of the Brahmana, Sloka 6". Bhagavata Purana. Vol. Part I. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. 1950. p. 137.
On the very day, and at the very moment the Lord [Krishna] left the earth, on that very day this Kali, the source of irreligiousness, (in this world), entered here.
- Wilson, H. H. (1895). "Book V, Ch. 38: Arjuna burns the dead, etc., Sloka 8". The Vishnu Purana. S.P.C.K. Press. p. 61.
The Parijata tree proceeded to heaven, and on the same day that Hari [Krishna] departed from the earth the dark-bodied Kali age descended.
- ^ "Ch. 103, Episode of Krsna concluded, Sloka 8". Brahma Purana. Vol. Part II. Motilal Banarsidass. 1955. p. 515.
It was on the day on which Krishna left the Earth and went to heaven that the Kali age, with time for its body set in.
- ^ See: Matchett, Freda, The Puranas, p 139 and Yano, Michio, Calendar, astrology and astronomy
- ^ "Addl trains chief demand at rly meet". Times of India. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-19-514891-6