about Panch Koshi Parikrama Varanasi
as per the Hindu mythology its belive that if some one die in this city the soul get libration from rebirth cycle as Hindus reincrnate as per their karma.but most importnat thing is to figoure out where is place and is limiation or boundry . to detemine the location of this place of moksha this Panchkoshi ytra belive to be the boundry wall or you can say the boparder of place of liberation from death and rebirth cycle. according to kashi Khand because of war between Brahma and Vishnu there was illumination of eneregy spreded upto 10 miles .the place between two rivers varuna and assi is knwon as Panchkoshi in Varansi .
as per the hindus text if you will have pligrimage jouey of this panckoshi belive to be comepletion of making journey of whole earth and get rid of all your bad karma . and if you do this trp for three times sins of entire life of birth and rebirth will be washed away , there for its recommended for the people of Varanasi to do this relioius trip at least once in their life.
Lord Ganesha as the witness of This Pilgrimage Joureny of Kashi
Rules to follow for this trip
you should do this round trip bare foot and one should not use the car. narutal call should be avoided in the city while taking the parikarama (one round ) . one should always be doing paryes and chanting while making this trip and some people comlte this trip while bowing down .during the trip one should eat only vegetarian food . This holy journey of Kashi start from Manuikarnika ghat . at first devottes take a holyt dip in to Manikarnika and in the GANGES at Manikarnika ghat after that they visit to Kashi viwanth temple where they take a promise to comlete the holy round of Varanasi , after that they visit to Annapurna Devi temple , and return back to Manikarnika ghat .after having darshan of Manikeshwar Mahdev they start their trip and walk along the river Ganges and arrive at Assi ghat and they enter to the city walk through assi , Nagwa , Bhagavanpur , Naria , Aditya Nagar and reach to the first stop called Kandwa . there is a temple called Karmedeshwar Mahadev temple where they do the offering and night stay at this place .one the way they visit all the temples which they find and give the litle bit of money to the beggers and continue their journey .
This panchkoshi yatra should be covered in five days and devottes are in full deep of their spiritual path .next day they start their trip from Kandwa and their next stop is Bhimchandi here they worship moher divine and follow the rituals and continiue to their next destination .
The third stop over is Rameshwar temple ,where they pray to the lord Shiva and get blessed sometime they do special Jagar by singing and dancing and contnue to their next place which is Pancho Pandva .Litteraly pancho Pndova means five pandav brother who also di this journey . This location is in shivpur area at the place devotees take a holy dip at Dropdia kund and have a darshan of Five Pandavs brother ,after night stay they depart for their last destination known as Kapil dhara here they do prayers at Kapileshwar temple .in this panchloshi there is importance of five as every day traveler covers five miles and their stop over is also five and they complete this holy round in five days. after the final stop over devotees reach to Manikarnika ghat and here they have darshan of Sakhsi Vinayak . it is said that Ganges witness the trip and he assure that devotes has completed the journey .after that people pay a holy visit Kashiviswanth temple and Kal Bhairav temple . as per the Hindu calendar if there is extra month this trip should be done .
Lord Rama and Five Pandus brother did this holy circle of Varanasi .
After the killing of Ravna his guru suggested him make this holy journey of kashi so he did so get rid from the sin of killing Ravana during this period at Rameshwarm he estabilish the Shivalainga .During the Mahabharta also This holy trip of Kashi has been mentioned , during their exile they came to kashi and did this holy journey to win the war with Kauvravas .
Interesting facts about Panchkoshi Yatra
According to Pdama Purana devotees they make this journey withing five miles and the journey shape is like a cell and during this trip they visit 108 holy shrines , there are 56 shivilnga , 11 Ganesha , shiva gana (companion of shiva), 10 devi (female deties) , 4 Vishnu, 2 bhairava and 15 other different pilgirmage site they visit .
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