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Bachendri Pal (born 24 May 1954) is an Indian mountaineer.In 1984, she became the first Indian woman to climb the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. [3] [1] She was awarded the third highest civilian award in India, Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2019.
Meri Jeevan Yatra (मेरी जीवन यात्रा), also known as My Journey Through Life is an autobiography of scholar, and polyglot Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan. Sankrityayan was fluent in many languages and dialects, including Hindi , Sanskrit , Pali , Bhojpuri , Magahi , Urdu , Persian , Arabic , Tamil , Kannada , Tibetan ...
Shikharji is the place where twenty of the twenty-four Jain tirthankaras including Parshvanatha along with many other monks attained Moksha. [6] [3] [9] [10] This pilgrimage site is considered the most important Jain Tirtha by both Digambara and Śvētāmbara.
[3] [4] It is the fifth most important peak among the group of five separate peaks in Himalayas in separate locations collectively known as the Panch Kailash or "Five Kailashas", other being Mount Kailash in first place, Adi Kailash in second, Shikhar Kailash (Shrikhand Mahadev Kailash) in third, and Kinnaur Kailash in fourth place in terms of ...
Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form.
Yatra (Sanskrit: यात्रा, lit. 'journey, procession', IAST: Yātrā), in Indian-origin religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, generally means a pilgrimage [1] to holy places such as confluences of sacred rivers, sacred mountains, places associated with Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and other sacred pilgrimage sites. [2]
Shrikhand Mahadev Kailash, also called Shikhar Kailash, [1] is a Hindu pilgrimage site in Nirmand sub-division of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India, considered to be an abode of Lord Shiva and his wife Goddess Parvati.
At 1,365 m (4,478 ft) Parasnath is the highest mountain peak in the state of Jharkhand, and is theoretically inter-visible (by direct line of sight on a perfectly clear day) with Mount Everest over 450 km (280 mi) away. [17] There is a beautiful Jain temple on the mountain peak known as "Svarna Bhadra koot "("cottage of golden grace"). [18]