Shatashringa

Location

Approximate Unlocated peak in the Garhwal Himalaya

Note

The mountain of a hundred peaks where Pandu lived in retreat and the Pandavas were born. Placed in the Himalaya only by the direction the text gives.

In the story

1. 5Pandu, Kunti and MadriPandu is crowned, marries Kunti and Madri, conquers, and is cursed to a childless life in the mountains
2. 6The birth of the Pandavas and the KauravasFive sons by five gods on a mountain; a hundred sons from a ball of flesh; Pandu's death

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