KashmirpediaHari Parbat
Shikha submitted this entry 12 years ago
Comments
More history from Wikipedia:
According to legend, the Hari Parbat hill was once a huge lake inhabited by the demon Jalobhava. The inhabitants called on the goddess Parvati for help. She took the form of a bird and dropped a pebble on the demon's head, which grew larger and larger until it crushed the demon. Hari Parbat is revered as that pebble, and is said to have become the home for all the gods of the Hindu pantheon.
Another version of the myth says that two demons, Tsand and Mond, occupied the fair valley. Tsand hid in the water near the present location of Hari Parbat and Mond somewhere above the present Dal Gate, and both terrorized the people of the valley. The gods invoked Parvati who assumed the form of a Haer (myna) and flew to Sumer, picked up a pebble in her beak, and threw it on the demon Tsand to crush him. The pebble grew into a mountainAmit Raina wrote this 12 years ago
A hill in the middle of Srinagar with an old fort and the Parbat temple.
According to Wikipedia -
It is the site of a Durrani fort, built in 1808. It has the famous Shakti Temple on the western Slope and Muslim shrines of Khwaja Makhdoom Sahib and Akhund Mullah Shah on the southern slope. On the southern side of the outer wall there is a Gurudwara, which commemorates the visit of Guru HargobindAmit Raina wrote this 12 years ago
Do you know something interesting about Hari Parbat?
Add your comments - Type in whatever you know about this term, name, place, food, word. You can type things that you know, ancedotes you have heard from people, your ancestors or whatever you would like to catalog for the generations to come
TIP : To reference another word on this site add a @ sign before the word, e.g. @Wanwun will link to the word Wanwun