\u2018 Adi Kailash\u2019, ‘Parwati Sarowar’ likely to get major tourist boost after PM Modi\u2019s proposed visit<\/p>\n
B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n
Pithoragarh, Oct 5<\/p>\n
Jolingkong peak, also known as \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019, where the Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0 is scheduled to visit on October 11th this year, is a tribal religious place which is also mentioned in the \u2018Puranic\u2019 texts and traditionally been revered by tribal people of Darma Vyans and Chaundans valleys.<\/p>\n
Late Dungar Singh Dhakariyal, a resident of Darma valley and\u00a0 former cultural coordinator of Pithoragarh District Information office, had written a book, named, ‘Chira La Mangala Barni’ on cultural\u00a0 traditions\u00a0 of Darma valleyin which he has given details of \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019.”It was\u00a0 from the time of Charkha hya, the boy from Darma valley who became the first king of Tibet, that the locals used to rever Jolingkong peak as abode of Lord Shiva,” wrote \u00a0Dhakariyal.<\/p>\n
He wrote that \u00a0Parwati Sarowar, a lake near the peak is the creation of Lord Shiva, which he created for bathing purposes \u00a0of his spouse Parwati, after She prayed him to create a bathing facility for her when the Lord was in deep meditation as she could not go far\u00a0 to take bath, leaving him alone.”Since then, the lake is known as \u2018Parwati Tal\u2019,” he wrote .<\/p>\n
The references of \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019 are also mentioned in \u2018Manaskhand\u2019 of \u2018Skand Puran\u2019, where it has been written that the peak, known as sacred hill, named as \u2018Tuhinanchal\u2019,\u00a0 which lies between river Shyama (Kali) and Gori and Shiva as \u2018Hansheswar\u2019 abode the top of hill, a sacred hill. The peak is known as Jolingkong today,” said the writer.<\/p>\n
The writer in his book said that the actual work to establish \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019 as a religious place was started in the year 1964, under leadership of Bala Singh Hyanki, a resident of Chaudans valley of Dharchula, who first located the ancient religious place and later established a temple of Shiva and Parwati in the year 1991.”It was with cooperation of residents of Kuti village of Vyans valley, who reached there in a group and worked as voluntary labourers for months to construct the temple there,” said the book.<\/p>\n
AK Gupta, Pithoragarh District Magistrate in the year 1991, had sent a team of officials to visit the \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019 and \u2018Parwati Sarowar\u2019 to find its exact location and terrain. The repor was later sent to the then UP government<\/p>\n
Today, \u201cAdi Kailash or Lord Shiva of Jolingkong peak,(5945m )\u00a0 is a revered peak substituting Kailash peak in Tibet, Thousands of pilgrims reach there every year to have view of Jolingkong peak and take bath in \u2018Parwati Sarowar\u2019.<\/p>\n
“The pilgrimage was started by Kumoan Mandal vikas Nigam (KMVN) \u00a0from the year 1993 and every year more than 1000 pilgrims from all over \u00a0visit \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019. This year more than 6000 pilgrims have visited the sacred place so far. It was hoped that after the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , the number of pilgrims will increase many fold, ” hoped \u00a0Dhan Singh Bisht, incharge of KMVN base camp at Dharchula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018 Adi Kailash\u2019, ‘Parwati Sarowar’ likely to get major tourist boost after PM Modi\u2019s proposed visit B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Oct 5 Jolingkong peak, also known as \u2018Adi Kailash\u2019, where the Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0 is scheduled to visit on October 11th this year, is a tribal religious place which is also mentioned in the \u2018Puranic\u2019 texts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,91,56,39,59],"tags":[434,1468,435,1506,160,1507,102],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-national","category-politics","category-tourism","category-uttarakhand","tag-adi-kailash","tag-jolingkong","tag-kmvn","tag-parwati-sarowar","tag-pithoragarh","tag-pm-narendra-modi","tag-uttarakhand"],"yoast_head":"\n