'Mahabharata-era relic links Kedarnath with Kathmandu temple'

Shirish B Pradhan
Kathmandu, Aug 23 (PTI) A Mahabharata-era relic which
links Nepal with India's holy Kedarnath temple has been
discovered on the outskirts of the capital, claimed an Indian
priest who conducted a special religious ceremony at the
shrine.
Sri Jagadguru Bimashankar Linga Shivacharya
Mahaswamiji of Kedarnathpeeth, in Uttarakhand, yesterday said
the head of the body of Lord Kedarpeeth has been found in the
4,000-year-old Doleshwor Mahadev temple in Bhaktapur, 12 km
east of Kathmandu.

"For 4,000 years, people have been searching for the
head of (Hindu deity) Kedarnath who assumed the shape of a
bull to avoid the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic
Mahabharata," says Mahaswamiji, who conducted Rudra Abhishek,
a special worshipping at the Doleshwor temple situated in
Sipadol village of Bhaktapur district.

"What is in Kedarpeeth is just the body and the head
of Kedarnath lies in Nepal."

There are many surprising links between Kedarpeeth and
Doleshwor, he said adding that the sculptures of Shiva found
in both shrines are 4,000 years old. Even a stone scripture
found in Doleshwor was written in Kannada, an Indian language.

After winning the historic battle of Kurukshetra, the
Pandavas wanted to visit Kedarnathji, but the head got
separated from the torso, as the legend goes. The hump-backed
structure of Uttarakhand's Kedarnath is worshipped as the
torso of the holy bull. PTI SBP
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