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यमुनोत्री
Yamunotri (3,293 m), Uttarakhand · 31.0167°, 78.4125°
Westernmost of the Chota Char Dham, source-shrine of the Yamuna beneath the Bandarpunch massif. Pilgrims cook rice in cloth bundles in the boiling Surya Kund spring and carry it home as prasad; the Divya Shila rock pillar is honoured before the goddess herself.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Yamuna is daughter of Surya and sister of Yama, lord of death — bathing in her waters is said to spare one a tortured death, and on Bhai Dooj her devotion to her brother is honoured across India.
6 km trek from Janki Chatti (via Barkot).
coordinates: wikidata-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Garhwal (Tehri)
Answers only from cited records
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