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When Sati, the wife of Shiva, sacrificed herself at the Yajna performed by her father Daksha a very distraught Shiva started dancing with her body. He was dancing the dance of destruction. And the gods said, "Oh, we are doomed! Shiva is dancing the dance of destruction. How are we ever going to to make him stop? Vishnu save us!"

Vishnu took his bow and cut the body of Sati into fifty-one pieces with his arrows. And wherever a pieces of the Divine Mother's body fell on earth, that place became a Shakti Pitha.

Below we have assembled the list of Shakti Pithas, the part of the Divine Mother's body associated with the Pitha, Her name, the name of Bhairav (Shiva) associated with the Pitha, and the geographical location with directions to reach it.

1. HINGULAJ or HINGLAJ

Devi's top part of head
Devi: Kotari
Bhairav: Bhimalochan



Location: Pakistan, 128 kms north east of Karachi above the cemetary. This sacred place of pilgrimage is particularly situated in a mountain cave "Hinglaj" on the river bank of "Hinghol" at the foothills of "Kheerthar" mountains called "Kanraj" in Lyari district of Baluchistan. Travel by road via the main Karachi - Quetta Highway upto Zero Point for about 75 miles and then west via Lyari town and then towards the signal Fauji Camp Stop, crossing Aghore River passing through Goongi River and then finally stopping at Asha Pura Sarai.




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