The Prithudk Tirath, Saraswati Tirath, Pehowa

This is the place where exists a average sized pond surrounded with temples. It is said that it is the only visible portion of Great River Saraswati, which some time was mighty river flowing through the deserts of Rajasthan and Thar area of India and in Hindu Mythology, it is said that she was cursed to hide herself. It appears only at Prayag afterwards at the end point of her journey and merges with Ganges & Yamuna there. Saraswati is seen not clear as Individual River, but only a shade of black water stream in the water of Ganges perhaps. This prithudek tirath, or as said Pehowa in modern times has Temple of River Saraswati being worshipped as Goddess. The place is important for Hindus because it is said that this place is strong enough by its virtue that certain rites can be performed which can give peace to disturbed souls. Hindus believe that any person who dies an unnatural death, do not attain peace and reincarnation till some special type of worshipping and rites are performed at some natural powerful places in India as explained in Hindu Mythology. This place is also one of those places where the disturbed soul can be given peace by performing some rites and the soul is liberated and can attain reincarnation soon. Thousands of Hindus come daily to Pehowa at this place to do such worshipping.
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Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa

Kartikeya Temple in Pehowa township of the North Indian state of Haryana is an ancient structure dating back to the 5th century B.C. Kartikeya is a popular Hindu deity in India and is worshiped across the length and breadth of the country. Like most Hindu deities, He is known by many other names, including Senthil, Saravaṇa, Arumugam or Shanmukha (meaning 'one with six faces'), Kumāra (meaning 'child or son'), Guha, Skanda (meaning 'that which is spilled or oozed, namely seed' in Sanskrit).^[1] The Kushanas, who governed from what is today Peshawar, and the Yaudheyas, a republican clan in the Punjab, stuck coins bearing the image of Skanda. The deity was venerated also by the Ikshvakus, an Andhra dynasty, and the Guptas.^[2]

Legend

The Skanda Purana narrates that Shiva first wed Sati, the granddaughter of Brahma, and the daughter of Daksha. Daksha never liked Shiva, who, symbolizing destruction and detachment, begs for food, dances in a graveyard smeared with ashes, and has no possessions, not even good clothes for himself. Daksha publicly insulted Shiva in a Yagna ceremony, and Sati immolated Herself in anger over this treatment of Her husband. The Yagna was destroyed by the ganas of Shiva led by Virabhadra. Shiva was an ascetic and his earlier marriage was conducted with great difficulty; his remarriage was out of the question. Hence Taraka believed that his boon of being killed by Shiva's son alone would give him invincibility.

The Devas manage to get Shiva remarried to Parvati by having Kama, the God of love awaken him from his penance, incurring his wrath in the process. Shiva hands over his effulgence of the third eye used to destroy Kama to Agni, as he alone is capable of handling it until it becomes the desired offspring. But even Agni, tortured by its heat, hands it over to Ganga who in turn deposits it in a lake in a forest of reeds (shara). The child is finally born in this forest (vana) with six faces - eesanam, sathpurusham, vamadevam, agoram, sathyojatham and adhomugam. He is first spotted and cared for by six women representing the Pleiades - Kritika in Sanskrit. He thus gets named Karttikeya. As a young lad, he destroyed Taraka. He is also known as Kumara (Sanskrit for youth).

Location of the temple

This famous temple is situated in the center of Pehowa in Kurukshetra district of Haryana. Pehowa is at a distance of 200 kilometers from Delhi and 90 kilometers from Karnal. It is also very close to the state of Punjab as it lies on the border of the two states, Haryana and Punjab.

Rules

Women are strictly forbidden in this temple which celebrates the brahmachari form of Lord Kartikeya. The devotees observe very strict rules during the months of Chaturmas (the months from Ashadha through Kartik). It is said that a true devotee of this shrine never loses any battles in his life.

References

1.                              ^ Clothey p.49 Skanda is derived from the verb skanḍr meaning "to attack, leap, rise, fall, be spilled, ooze"

2.                              ^ Ratna Navaratnam ; Karttikeya, the divine child:the Hindu testament of wisdom published in 1973 by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartikeya_Temple,_Pehowa