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Country: India
- State : Uttrakhand
- District: Almora
- Nearest International Airport: IGI Delhi
- Nearest Railway Station: Kathgodam
- Distance from Nearest Railway Station : 125 km
- Distance from Delhi : 400 Km. Approx.
- Height from Sea Level : 8,000 Ft. (2,400 meters)
- A cluster of six small villages forms the place that is variously known as Dunagiri,.Drongiri and Doonagiri.
- According to the local tradition, the town has been regularly visited by sages (Rishi-Munis) of India who established their ashramshere in the midst of nature.[1] Ashram of Garga Muni was at Dunagiri after whom river Gagas is said to have been named. Sukhdev Muni’s ashram (son of sage Ved Vyasa) was also here, at a place now known as “Sukh Devi”.[citation needed] During their period of anonymous travel, the Pandavas of Mahabharata took shelter at Dunagiri. Pandukholi is said to be the place near Dunagiri where they stayed for a period of time. Pandav’s Guru Dronacharya also did tapasya (devout austerity) at Dunagiri.[citation needed] Dunagiri is mentioned in Manas khand of Skanda Purana. Dunagiri Devi is described as Mahamaya Harpriya (Manaskhand, 36.17-18). Manaskhand of Skandpuran bestows Dunagiri with the title of Brahm-parvat (Divine Mountain). Among all the Shakti temples of Kumaon, Dunagiri is counted amid the most ancient ‘Sidh Shaktipeeth’, as a primary ‘ugra’ (intense) ‘peeths’ – called ‘Ugra Peeth’. This Shaktipeeth in its essence has been influenced over time by Shaiva, Vaishnav and Shakti practices.
- It is also said by the local people that in Tritra yuga lakshman was badly unconscious state in battle with megnath (son of Ravana) . then Susan Vidiya (Herbal medicine practitioner) instructed Hanuman to go Gronachal Mountain and carry with himm a type of Herbal medicine named ‘Sanjivini’. Hanuman could not find that medicinal plant lastly he decided to carry with him with the whole Mountain so by doing so a part of that mountain fell at had been fallen at this place and develvepoed as a Dunagiri. and temple was named Dunagiri which is the abbreviation of the word ‘DRONAGIRI’.
- This is the Second Besnav peeth after Besnav Devi Temple In Jammu and Kashmir.
- Hotels and Resorts are Available in Dunagiri and Dwarahat
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