Monday 20 August 2018

Sita Kund


✎ Sita Kund is a Hindu pilgrimage site in Sitamarhi district, in the Indian state of Bihar, which has an ancient Hindu temple.

✎ Sita Kund place is the honor of being the birthplace of Hindu Goddess, Sita.

✎ It is situated 5 km west of Sitamarhi town and a popular visitor’s attraction.

✎ Sita Kund is a holy hot water spring, situated near a temple.

✎ Punaura Dham Mandir is one of the holiest Hindu temples dedicated to Goddess Sita, located in Sitamarhi, Bihar, India. Millions of pilgrims visit the temple every year and most visited religious shrine in North India.

✎ Sitamarhi is the place where Sita was born, the main character of the epic Ramayana. The town is situated along the border of Nepal.

✎ This town was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1939.

Nearby Sita Kund is a reservoir of cold water which is known as the Rama Kund.

✎ To the west of the Sita Kund lie the Lakshman Kund, Bharat Kund and Shatrugan Kund, named after the three brothers of Lord Rama.

✎ According to legend when Goddess Sita came out of the fire, she took bath in this pool and the heat of the body was absorbed by the water of the pool.

✎ The hot spring is now enclosed in a masonry reservoir and is visited by large number of pilgrims, especially at the full moon of Magh.

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