Glimpses of Western India
When the present has not caught up with the future, the past is a lovely place to visit.
Dhaumya Maharshi’s Daund Junction:
Bhima river near Daund:
Solanki Bhima’s Sun temple at Modherak is where Sri Rama performed a yagnya in Dharmaranya. “The temple was so designed that the first rays of the sun fell on the image of Surya, the Sun God, at the time equinoxes.”
“Lord Rama, after defeating Ravana, asked sage Vasistha to show him a place of pilgrimage where he could go and purify himself from the sin of Brahma-hatya (the sin of killing a Brahmin, because Ravana was a Brahmin by birth). Sage Vasistha showed him Dharmaranya, which was near the modern town of Modhera. In the Dharmaranya, he settled at a village Modherak and performed a yagna there. Thereafter he established a village and named it Sitapur. This village is about 8 km from Becharaji Modherak village and it subsequently came to be known as Modhera.”
Gandhiji’s birth place Porbandar, is also the place of Sri Krishna’s Friend Sudama
Somnath, where first Soma (moon), and later Sri Krishna worshipped Siva, One of the 12 Jyotirlingas
Colours of Gujarat (French, bit of Bombai included, Ahmedabad starts at 7:51):
Still collecting…….
