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4 places to explore — hand-picked across Jharkhand.
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Baidyanath Dham (Jaya Durga) in Deoghar, Jharkhand is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. According to tradition, this is where t…
Deoghar, the 'abode of the gods', is home to the Baidyanath Jyotirlinga, one of the twelve sacred Jyotirlingas of Shiva. During the monsoon month of Shravan, millions of saffron-clad kanwariyas wal…
At Rajrappa the Damodar and Bhairavi rivers meet below a red-washed shrine of Chhinnamastika — the self-decapitated Tantric goddess who feeds her attendants from her own severed head, an image of f…
Shikharji, atop Parasnath Hill — Jharkhand's highest peak — is the holiest pilgrimage site in Jainism, where twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras are believed to have attained moksha. Devout pilg…
