Shona Shakti Peeth
Shona Shakti Peeth is considered one of the 51 Shakti Peeths famous in Hinduism. This Shakti Peeth is located at the origin of the Narmada River within the Amarkantak district of Madhya Pradesh state.
According to the Puranas in Hinduism, wherever the body parts or ornaments of the goddess Sati fell, there they became Shakti Peeth. These Shakti Peeths are known as very holy shrines, which are unfold all over the Indian subcontinent. These Shakti Peeths are very important from a religious point of view.
Significance of Shona Shakti Peeth
Shona Shakti Peeth is one of the 51 Shakti Peeths. According to the Puranas of Hinduism, wherever the items of the a part of Sati fell, the clothes or jewelery worn, Shakti Peeth came into existence. These are called holy places of pilgrimage. These pilgrimage spots are spread across the Indian subcontinent. The Devi Purana describes the 51 pilgrim spots.
• Sati's "fall of the southern buttock" of Narmada temple in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, and this temple there is called Shakti Peeth.
• Here Mata Sati is called "Narmada" or "Shonakshi" and Lord Shiva is called "Bhadrasen".
• Another belief is that the Tarachandi temple of Sasaram in Bihar is the Shona Tantastha Shakti Peeth.
• It is believed that Sati's "right eye fell".
However, now the river Shon has gone a little farther apart.
• Some scholars consider the Devi temple situated at a distance from Dehri-Anson station which is located on the Delhi-Howrah main railroad, as the Shakti Peeth.
• There is a difference of opinion about its condition.
Shona Shakti Peeth Mythology
Shona Shakti Peeth is one of the 51 Shakti peeths. According to religious texts, parts of Goddess Sati fell at all these places. According to the legend, a yajna was organized by King Daksha, father-in-law of Lord Shiva, during which King Daksha didn't send invitations to Lord Shiva and Mother Sati as a result of King Daksha didn't consider Lord Shiva as his equal. There was a variety of insult to Lord Shiva on the place of sacrifice, which Mata Sati could not bear and she fell into the Havan Kund there.
Lord Shankar came to find out about this, after which he reached there and took out the body of Mata Sati from Havan Kund and began doing Tandava, which caused upheaval in the entire universe. To save the entire universe from this crisis, Lord Vishnu divided the body of Mata Sati into 51 parts from his Sudarshan Chakra, the limb where it fell became the Shakti peeth.
The "right buttock" (hip) of Mata Sati was dropped in Shona Shakti Peeth. Here Mata Sati is known as ‘Narmada’ (Shonakshi) and Lord Shiva as ‘Bhadrasena’.
