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The 51 Shakti Peethas 39/51

Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha

AvantiUncertain: from the goddess’s name, Madhya Pradesh (probable)

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Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha: The 51 Shakti Peethas 39/51, Avanti, Uncertain: from the goddess’s name, Madhya Pradesh (probable)
In short

Bhairava-parvata is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas of the Pithanirnaya; by the text Sati’s upper lip fell here, and the goddess is Avanti and the Bhairava Lambakarna. From the goddess’s name "Avanti" the historian D. C. Sircar places it in western Malwa, the Ujjain region, but names no exact site.

Deity
Avanti
Tradition
Shakta
List
The 51 Shakti Peethas 39/51
Place
Uncertain: from the goddess’s name (Avanti), western Malwa, the Ujjain region
State
Madhya Pradesh (probable)
Country
India

Where the sources differ

  • The official website of the Shri Mahakaleshwar temple of Ujjain calls the city’s Harsiddhi temple the 13th Shakti Peetha (Ujjayini), not this one.
  • Some popular lists today link this pitha with a temple, but we found no official or scholarly source for it; so no temple and no map are given here.
  • The count of pithas depends on the text: the Pithanirnaya lists 51, some Bengali lists 52, the Devi Bhagavata (7.30) gives 108 places with names of the goddess, and the early Tantras name only four (Sircar).

Frequently asked questions

Which limb of Sati fell at the Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha?

By the Pithanirnaya, the upper lip; the goddess is Avanti and the Bhairava Lambakarna. The place is probably the Ujjain region, not certain.

Where is Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha?

Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha is in Uncertain: from the goddess’s name (Avanti), western Malwa, the Ujjain region, Madhya Pradesh (probable).

Which lists of tirthas include Bhairava-parvata Shakti Peetha?

The 51 Shakti Peethas (number 39 of 51 in the list).

Sources

  1. D. C. Sircar, The Śākta Pīṭhas (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1948; Motilal Banarsidass, 1973): table of the Pithanirnaya pp. 35-37, note on this pitha p. 55 (archive.org)
  2. Vachaspatyam (Taranatha Tarkavachaspati), "pitha": the list of pithas quoted from the Tantrachudamani (Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de)
  3. Shri Mahakaleshwar temple, Ujjain, official website (shrimahakaleshwar.mp.gov.in): "About Ujjain"

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