kurukshetra
Temple Name : Devi Koop kali mandir
Devi : Sati savithri
Bhairava : Shthanu
Organ: right ankle
Sanskrit letter: “Naa”
How to reach :
Kurukshetra lies on the Delhi-Ambala stretch of the National Highway number, 160 km from Delhi.The nearest airport lies at Chandigarh, which is 116 km away. To reach Kurukshetra, one has to branch into Kurukshetra town along a state road, from the national highway at the Pipli cross-road. There are trains also halts here.
About the temple -
This legendary place has an immortal place in history of india. This is the place where great war between pandavas and Kauravawhich is described in mahabharatha epic and association with the Vedas and the Vedic Culture. Another thing is it is said krishna gave Gita to Arjuna. That place is now named as “Yotheeswar theert” which is about 8 km from railway station. There is a banyan tree with statues depicting Bheesmar on the throne bed.
There are totally 360 temples in kurukshetra around 48 miles. Brahma Sarovar,Sannihit Sarovar, Bhishma Kund at Naraktar,Ban Ganga are wonderful theerth around this holy place.
The shakthi peet “Devi koop mandir” is in Jaansa road near Sathanu Shiva Temple. The temple is in vast place has a long enternce which an arch welcoming us. In the entrance of the temple, we can see a well which said to be shakthi peet. This is usual in every shakthi peet, according to my experience; every shakthi peet is located as a water layer or nearby, the temple which should construct latter nearby a water media. There was some exception like sheer bhawani in srinnagar, dhraksrama in andhra, manosarovor in Kailash where water itself is worshipped as Devi.
There is an idol – leg portion of Devi seated on lotus with an umbrella on the top – is depicted near well, this is one of the few places among shakthi peet where organ is depicted in the temple. The main idol depicted inside the temple for Savithri is exactly in form of bhadra kali – tongue is out with sharp teeth either side, shiva lie down at her feet, but the face of Devi is still and calm. We can see the Bhairava image carved in right side of the main shrine, Ganapathi on another side.
There is a seperate shrine with linga installed on upstairs of this temple. Big fairs are held in the temple in the Indian months of ‘Chaitra’ and “Asuja” and in mahashivarathri and navrathri times.
Some other places to visit in this land are Jyotisar (The place where Geeta was preached), Narka-Tari Kund, Hanuman ji, Sarveshwar Mahadev, Brahma-Sarovar, DukhBanjneshwar, Suryakund, Biria Mandir, KuruPandu temple, Geeta Bhavan, Thaneshwar MahaDev etc.
