{"id":12459,"date":"2023-06-25T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:51:08","slug":"kedarnath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kedarnath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedarnath Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kedarnath Temple:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Hindu temple<\/strong> <strong>dedicated to Shiva<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located at an height of <strong>3,584 meters<\/strong> on the <strong>Garhwal Himalayan<\/strong> range <strong>near the Mandakini river<\/strong>, in the Rudraprayag District of <strong>Uttarakhand<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Kedarnath forms <strong>one of the four sites of the Chota Char Dham<\/strong> Pilgrimage circuit, and is <strong>one of the 12 Jyotirlingas<\/strong> of Lord Shiva in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who build it?<\/strong> It is said that the <strong>Pandavas constructed<\/strong> the Kedarnath Temple which was later <strong>reconstructed by Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century A.D.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has exquisite architecture and is <strong>built of extremely large but evenly shaped grey stone slabs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The stone <strong>slabs are interlocked<\/strong> with each other <strong>with the use of iron clamps<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No mortar has been used<\/strong> in the construction of the temple.<\/li>\n<li>There is a <strong>conical rock structure inside <\/strong>the Kedarnath temple <strong>that is worshipped as the Sadashiva form of Shiva.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A \u201c<strong>Garba Griha<\/strong>\u201d for worship <strong>and a Mandap for pilgrims<\/strong> is placed inside the temple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Chota Char Dham Yatra?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It refers to the <strong>journey up the mountains to four sacred temples<\/strong> in the North Indian state <strong>of Uttarakhand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The four temples that comprise Chota Char Dham are <strong>Yamunotri Dham, Gangotri Dham, Badrinath Dham and Kedarnath Dham.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are Jyotirlingas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where <strong>Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlingam<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>currently 12 main Jyotirlingas in India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The 12 Jyotirlinga temples in India <strong>take the name of the presiding deity<\/strong>. Each <strong>considered a different manifestation of Lord Shiva<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 Jyotirlingas<\/strong> in India are:\n<ul>\n<li>Somnath Jyotirlinga in Gir, Gujarat<\/li>\n<li>Mallikarjuna Jyotirlinga in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh<\/li>\n<li>Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh<\/li>\n<li>Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh<\/li>\n<li>Baidyanath Jyotirlinga in Deoghar, Jharkhand<\/li>\n<li>Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga in Maharashtra<\/li>\n<li>Ramanathaswamy Jyotirlinga in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu<\/li>\n<li>Nageshwar Jyotirlinga in Dwarka, Gujarat<\/li>\n<li>Kashi Vishwanath Jyotirlinga in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh<\/li>\n<li>Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga in Nasik, Maharashtra<\/li>\n<li>Kedarnath Jyotirlinga in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand<\/li>\n<li>Ghrishneshwar Jyotirlinga in Aurangabad, Maharashtra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q) What are Jyotirlingas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlingam. There are currently 12 main Jyotirlingas in India. The 12 Jyotirlinga temples in India take the name of the presiding deity. Each considered a different manifestation of Lord Shiva.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/high-level-panel-to-probe-alleged-scam-in-gold-plating-at-kedarnath-temple-4148532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>High-Level Panel To Probe Alleged Scam In Gold Plating At Kedarnath Temple<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kedarnath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}