Destination weddings: Couples tie knot at temple the place Shiva and Parvati have been married
3 min readExpress News Service
DEHRADUN: The Triyuginarayan temple in Triyugi village in Uttarakhand has become a web site for vacation spot weddings, with {couples} following within the footsteps of Shiva and Parvati whose marriage was solemnised right here based on the Puranas.
Speaking to The New Indian Express, Yogendra Singh, chief govt officer of Badri Kedar Temple Committee, stated, “The committee will soon prepare an action plan to provide basic amenities to couples coming here with the aim of tying the knot.”
“More than 50 marriages have taken place in Triyuginarayan since Makar Sankranti this year,” Uttarakhand Tirthpurohit Samiti secretary Sarveshvanand Semwal instructed The New Indian Express. “There have been 30 marriages in May-June alone. In 2022, there were 85 weddings throughout the season. Weddings have been booked here till March 2024,” he added.
Semwal additional stated, “Triyuginarayan is the site where the divine marriage of Shiva and Parvati during the ‘Satyuga’ took place in the presence of the holy fire, which still burns for eternity in front of the temple in havan-kund, a four-cornered chimney on the ground.”
“According to the scriptures, pilgrims coming to this temple take the ashes emanating from the burning fire with them as sacred. It is also believed that the ashes emanating from this fire deepen marital bliss,” he added.
Located in Rudraprayag district, about 250 km from state capital Dehradun, the temple additionally has historic swimming pools with particular significance. In the final twenty years, many celebrities have tied the knot right here, together with Higher Education Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat, artist Kavita Kaushik, Nikita Sharma, Jitendra Aseda, IPS officer Aparna Gautam, IAS officer Lalit Mohan Rayal and SDM Jitendra Verma.
However, clergymen of the temple are dissatisfied that the amenities right here haven’t been renovated even 5 years after then CM Trivendra Singh Rawat had introduced that it might be become the prime marriage ceremony vacation spot of Uttarakhand.
DEHRADUN: The Triyuginarayan temple in Triyugi village in Uttarakhand has become a web site for vacation spot weddings, with {couples} following within the footsteps of Shiva and Parvati whose marriage was solemnised right here based on the Puranas.
Speaking to The New Indian Express, Yogendra Singh, chief govt officer of Badri Kedar Temple Committee, stated, “The committee will soon prepare an action plan to provide basic amenities to couples coming here with the aim of tying the knot.”
“More than 50 marriages have taken place in Triyuginarayan since Makar Sankranti this year,” Uttarakhand Tirthpurohit Samiti secretary Sarveshvanand Semwal instructed The New Indian Express. “There have been 30 marriages in May-June alone. In 2022, there were 85 weddings throughout the season. Weddings have been booked here till March 2024,” he added.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Semwal additional stated, “Triyuginarayan is the site where the divine marriage of Shiva and Parvati during the ‘Satyuga’ took place in the presence of the holy fire, which still burns for eternity in front of the temple in havan-kund, a four-cornered chimney on the ground.”
“According to the scriptures, pilgrims coming to this temple take the ashes emanating from the burning fire with them as sacred. It is also believed that the ashes emanating from this fire deepen marital bliss,” he added.
Located in Rudraprayag district, about 250 km from state capital Dehradun, the temple additionally has historic swimming pools with particular significance. In the final twenty years, many celebrities have tied the knot right here, together with Higher Education Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat, artist Kavita Kaushik, Nikita Sharma, Jitendra Aseda, IPS officer Aparna Gautam, IAS officer Lalit Mohan Rayal and SDM Jitendra Verma.
However, clergymen of the temple are dissatisfied that the amenities right here haven’t been renovated even 5 years after then CM Trivendra Singh Rawat had introduced that it might be become the prime marriage ceremony vacation spot of Uttarakhand.
