Triyuginarayan

Village and sacred site (tirtha) in
the Mandakini River valley in the
Garhwal region of the Himalayas,
fifteen miles down from Kedarnath. The
site for Triyuginarayan is on the top
of a mountain, surrounded by forest.
Triyuginarayan’s major temple is dedicated to the god Vishnu in his form as
Narayana, and in front of the temple is a
pit in which a fire is said to have been
smoldering for the past three cosmic
ages (triyugi). According to its charter
myth, Triyuginarayan is the site at which
the deities Shiva and Parvati were married, a ceremony to which this continuously smoldering fire (in its guise as
Agni, the fire-god) stands as the witness.