About Kedarnath Temple

Kedarnath Mandir is a Hindu sanctuary committed to Ruler Shiva. It is on the Garhwal Himalayan range close to the Mandakini stream in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand in India. Because of extraordinary climate conditions, the sanctuary is open just between the finish of April (Akshaya Tritriya) to Kartik Purnima (the harvest time full moon, normally November). Amid the winters, the vigrahas (divinities) from Kedarnath sanctuary are conveyed to Ukhimath and venerated there for a half year. Master Shiva is revered as Kedarnath, the 'Ruler of Kedar Khand', the verifiable name of the district.

Prevalently described legend holds that ensuing to the Kurukshetra war of the epic Mahabharata, the Pandavas on the counsel of the god Krishna and different sages wished to make amends for their transgressions of fratricide and Brāhmanahatya, conferred by them amid the war by looking for exonerate from the god Shiva and furthermore appeal to God for his gifts previously achieving salvation. In any case, Shiva was not willing to meet them since he was irritated with them for the out of line occasions of the war. He, accordingly, abstained from meeting them at Kashi and went in secret as the bull Nandi to Guptakashi. Be that as it may, Pandavas sought after him to Guptakashi and remembered him in the hidden type of Nandi. Whenever Bhima, the second Pandava sibling endeavored to hold the bull by its tail and rear legs, Nandi vanished from Guptakashi, into the ground (into a give in for covering up), however returned later as Shiva in five unique structures to be specific, bump at Kedarnath, confront at Rudranath, arms at Tungnath, navel and stomach at Madhyamaheshwar and the locks at Kalpeshwar.