The Sthaneshwar MahadevTemple, whose presiding deity is Lord Shiva, is believed to be the oldest temple in the vicinity.
Other religious sites include the BrahmaSarovar, the Sannihit Sarovar, Gurdwara 6th Patashahi and the Devi Bhadrakali temple, which is counted among the 51 Shakti Peethas.
The bathing-fair held here on the occurrence of a solar eclipse is said to be attended by half a million pilgrims.
The Divine knowledge of brahm which is received with the Grace of God by the follower of the path of gyan or yog at the culmination of his practice.
Barsana, Gahvarban, Prem Sarovar, Nandgaon, Kamban, Govardhan, Radha Kund, Kusum Sarovar, Vrindaban and Gokul are the important places in Braj where Radha Krishn along with Gopis and Gwalbals did most of Their leelas.
It is revealed by God through Brahma before the beginning of human civilization and is represented through the Upnishads and the Puranas.
It represents a synthesis of Persian and Indian architecture and stands at the centre of a large water tank.
Jal Mahal, a pleasure palace situated in the middle of a tank known by the name of Khan Sarovar, was built, according to a Persian inscription over the main entrance.
The entrance to the palace is from the north through a gatehouse with rooms for guards, constructed over a bridge resting on sixteen arched spans.
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His Samhita, a compendium of systematically arranged text and verse, is an intellectual watershed containing the collective knowledge of medicine existing down the ages from the Vedic to the post-Vedic eras.
And as Ayurveda is considered an "Upa Veda" or a derivative of the Vedas, it rests heavily on the sophisticated medical contents of the Atharva Veda and the associated Garbhopanishad (the Upanishad related to human intra-uterine gestation) along with less esoteric but equally valuable inputs from folk medicine.
Now he seems to have zeroed in on a 800-km belt, stretching from Adi Badri in Haryana (the source of the river, says the ASI) to Dholavira in Gujarat.
The banks of this magnificent river meandering through central India is many things to many people, a place of rest and relaxation, of solace, of spiritual retreat.
It is a source of life giving water for vast irrigation systems and now the highly controversial Sardar Sarovar dam project.
The Narmada has taken on a larger significance in contemporary India.
