After Bhedaghat, Narmada continues to flow in the Jabalpur district for some distance. There is a place called Belpathar, where Raja Bali is said to have performed a Yagna - though a place called …
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The Eastern Narmadakhand: From Amarkantak to Bhedaghat
The Narmada originates from Amarkantak in the Mekal hills, an extension of the Satpuras on the MP-Chhattisgarh border, from a small source known as the ‘Narmada-Kund. At the ‘Narmada-Kund’ there are …
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The Narmada Parikrama Tradition
यानि कानि च पापानि जन्मान्तरकृतानि च । तानि सर्वाणि नश्यन्ति प्रदक्षिणायां पदे पदे ।। (Whatever sins one might have committed over the lifetimes, all of them will get destroyed by steps of the …
Narmada: The Giver of Joy
Narmada, as is well-known, is the main peninsular river in India flowing westward, and is considered as one of the seven sacred rivers of 'Bharatvarsha' - others being Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, …
The Parting Gift – A Tale from the 74 Bungalows, Bhopal
(A Story by Vinayak Lohani) The year was 1982. Mr. Sundar Raghav, an Indian Administrative Service officer had been transferred to Bhopal at Vallabh Bhavan, the state secretariat, after doing two …
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