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Chandrabhaga Temple

Chandrabhaga or Prabhas Shakti Peeth is one of the most famous temples amongst Hindus. It is near Triveni Sangam in Prabhas region of Gujarat and is also mentioned in the Puranas. At present, this Shaktipeeth is located on the back side of Shri Ram Temple of Somnath Trust and near Harihar Forest. The path leading to the temple goes from the left side of the entrance to the Sri Rama temple. There is a lack of information about the power of this Shaktipeeth in Somnath region. Most guides do not include this temple in the local religious shrines there. Therefore, devotees will have to strive to see this form of Mother Sati by themselves. Every year A huge number of devotees flock from all the parts of the country to worship the holy place, as it is said that people who worship here truly, get rid of their past sins. 

 

 

According to religious texts, parts of Goddess Sati fell at all these places. According to the legend, King Daksha, father-in-law of Lord Shiva, organized a yajna, in which King Daksha did not send invitations to Lord Shiva and Mother Sati, because King Daksha did not consider Lord Shiva as his equal. Mata Satifelt really bad when she heard it.. She reached the yagna without invitation. There were a lot of insults to Lord Shiva at the Yagna site, which Mata Sati could not bear and she jumped into the Havan Kund there. Lord Shankar came to know about this, after which he reached there and took out the body of Mata Sati from Havan Kund and started doing Tandava, which caused upheaval in the entire universe. To save the entire universe from this crisis, Lord Vishnu divided the body of Mata Sati into 51 parts from his Sudarshan Chakra, the organ where it fell became the Shakti Peetha.

In Prabhas Shakti Peeth, the "stomach" of Mother Sati fell. Here Mata Sati is known as ‘Chandrabhaga’ and Lord Shiva as ‘Vakratund.’