Allahabad

Triveni Sangam (somnath)- The Holy Confluence. Somnath is a town located on the South Western side of Gujarat. This place is situated in the Gir Somnath District. Somnath is famous for the confluence of 3 rivers and in Sanskrit, a confluence of 3 rivers is referred to as Triveni Sangam.

Hyderabad, India Triveni Sangam means confluence of three rivers. One such Triveni Sangam, in Prayag (Allahabad) has two physical rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the invisible or mythic Saraswati River. The three rivers maintain their identity and are visibly different as they merge.

Prayagraj

Scientists, geologists as well as scholars have identified the Sarasvati with many present-day or now defunct rivers. Several scholars have identified the river with the present-day Ghaggar-Hakra River or dried up part of it, which is located in Northwestern India and Pakistan.

She didn’t listen and that is when Ganesha cursed her that she will one day completely vanish,” explains Dharmender Pandey, a priest at the Adi Badri temple.

Considered sacred by millions of Indians, Saraswati is one among the trio of India’s holy rivers, along with Ganga and Yamuna. As per the documents submitted by the Haryana government in the recent case, around 6000 years ago the Saraswati river disappeared due to tectonic disturbances, impacting its tributaries.

father Brahma

Brahma created sarswati and married her for divine purposes. Saraswati is called the mother of the Vedas, and later as the celestial creative symphony who appeared when Brahma created the universe.

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It is believed that goddess Saraswati endows human beings with the powers of speech, wisdom and learning.

Goddess Saraswati is the daughter of Prajapita Brahma . It is also written in the earliest four Vedas .

Amritavalli and Sundravalli are daughters of Lord Vishnu. Lakshmi and Maha Visnu’s daughters were Sundaravalli and Amirtavalli born out of the tears of joy of Narayana during his incarnation as Trivikrama (Lakshmi was in Heart of Lord).

Parvati and Shiva, Lakshmi and Vishnu, Brahma and Saraswati. The pairs were then tasked with creation, maintainace and dissolution of the universe together. Long story short it is Saraswati that is considered Shiva’s sister, and not Lakshmi.

In many regional cultures, Gauri is considered to be Ganesha’s sisters — Jyestha and Kanishta, who have come looking for him. Two idols of Goddess Gauri are brought home and worshipped by people with elaborate rituals. Some people also believe Gauri to be a form of Goddess Parvati, Lord Ganesha’s mother.

You must have heard he has two wives. According to a legend, Ganesh used to worry about his body. Due to this curse, Ganesh got married twice. When Ganesha’s marriage began to get delayed and no one was ready to marry him, he became enraged and interrupted the marriage of the gods.

According to a Tamil mythology, Lord Ganesha refused to marry anyone as he felt no woman is beautiful than his mother. While according to Bengali mythology, no woman wanted to marry Ganesha as he had an elephant head. Hence, his mother got him married to a banana plant – a symbol of fertility.

Acocrding to Tamil tradition and Thiruvilayadal Puranam He had two wives (and probably many Children) had his son (Veera Pandion) as a heir to Pandion Empire. The story about Lord Muruga’s Children are immaterial and hence no stories about them.

The temple, which worships the brahmachari or celibate form of Lord Kartikeya in Pushkar, does not allow women over a myth that the deity curses females who enter the temple. Lord Annappa Swamy temple at Dharmasthala near Mangalore also prohibits women from entering the temple.

Svaha deposits the semen of Agni into the reeds of River Ganges, where it develops and then is born as six headed Skanda. Shiva’s semen incubates in River Ganges, preserved by the heat of god Agni, and this fetus is born as baby Kartikeya on the banks of Ganges.

While it is true that Kartikeya is not worshipped in North as much as he is worshipped in Tamil Nadu (or wherever Tamils are located), he is an ancient Vedic-era deity and there are archaeological evidences of old idols and temples belonging to Kartikeya all over India.

It is also commonly believed that Thaipusam marks Murugan’s birthday; though some other sources suggest that Vaikhasi Vishakam, which falls in the Vaikhasi month (May/June), is Murugan’s birthday….Thaipusam.

The Matsya Purana mentions the ferocious eleven Rudras – named:

• Kapali.
• Pingala.
• Bhima.
• Virupaksa.
• Vilohita.
• Ajesha.
• Shasana.
• Shasta.

Lord Shiva and his consort Parvati had two sons named Kartikeya (Kartika) and Ganesha (Vinayaka). The elder was Kartikeya and the younger Ganesha. In South India Kartikeya is popularly known as Lord Subramanya.

Who was Shiva’s daughter? Shiva’s daughter was named Ashok Sundari as she rid her mother Parvati of her sorrow (‘shok’). Folk tales also refer to the goddess of light, Jyoti, as well as Mansa, who cures snakebites, as his daughters.

Skanda

Shiva further says that Kartikeya is perplexed because the yodha inside him is not able to accept its defeat. Shiva reveals that Kartikeya has left Kailash. Parvati wails that her son cannot take such a big test of his mother.