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Kashmira Shakti Peetha

MahamayaKashmir; exact site uncertain, Jammu and Kashmir (exact site uncertain)

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Kashmira Shakti Peetha: The 51 Shakti Peethas 4/51, Mahamaya, Kashmir; exact site uncertain, Jammu and Kashmir (exact site uncertain)
In short

Kashmira is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas of the Pithanirnaya; by the text Sati’s throat fell here, and the goddess is Mahamaya and the Bhairava Trisandhyeshvara. The text says only "Kashmir", naming no shrine, and the historian D. C. Sircar points out that it does not even mention Sharada or Amarnath; he sees a fanciful element in the description.

Deity
Mahamaya
Tradition
Shakta
List
The 51 Shakti Peethas 4/51
Place
Kashmir; exact site uncertain (the text names no shrine)
State
Jammu and Kashmir (exact site uncertain)
Country
India

Where the sources differ

  • The Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board’s website describes the Amarnath cave as the shrine of Shiva’s ice linga and does not call it a Shakti Peetha; so Amarnath is not taken here as this pitha, and no map is given.
  • The Devi Bhagavata (7.30) names the goddess of the Kashmir region Medha.
  • 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 Kashmira Shakti Peetha?

By the Pithanirnaya, the throat; the goddess is Mahamaya and the Bhairava Trisandhyeshvara. The text names no particular shrine in Kashmir.

Where is Kashmira Shakti Peetha?

Kashmira Shakti Peetha is in Kashmir; exact site uncertain (the text names no shrine), Jammu and Kashmir (exact site uncertain).

Which lists of tirthas include Kashmira Shakti Peetha?

The 51 Shakti Peethas (number 4 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. 44 (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. Devi Bhagavata Purana 7.30 (the list of 108 pithas), English translation by Swami Vijnanananda (wisdomlib.org)
  4. Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (shriamarnathjishrine.com): The Holy Shrine (Wayback Machine copy of June 2026)

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