Sunday, October 30, 2011

Kalo Dungar






We were climbing on Kalo Dungar on eve of Diwali Vikram Savant 2067. It was nice cool atmosphere with colourful Sandhya. It was enjoying to see sun of last day of 2067 to see setting off. Sky was mixed up with rosy to purple colourful with bluish tinge. Sky was wide covering our mother earth. One one side we were seeing Kalo Dungar , black hill and on other side sea water.
After reaching top it was pleasant to have be at feet of Lord Dattatrey on Diwali day. We prayed together and moved in dim light to see surroundings.
This is one of oldest temple of lord Dattatrey. He did tapashcharya here. During this he also saved cows drawn away by looters. During his stay he was daily feeding alll animals and birds around him too. Once upon time there was no food to serve them and foxes came for it. He removed piece of his own thigh muscle to serve them and spoke words' le Aang' means take my body part. It was slowly changed words to 'long prasad'. Still there is practice to serve at noon with prasad and foxes come to have it. It is suprsing too that these fixes are not seen afterwards.

Thus Lord Dattatrey is called pachmayi pir, protecting western border.
Nature has her three forms seen here, hill, green land and sea with white sand or salts. It's really beautiful to be here with nature. We stayed overnight here and saw also rising sun of 1st day of vikram samvant 2068. We were lucky to be here on this auspicious day.around this tirth there are view points, India bridge, small ways to climb hills, different birds to see and hear them. Near by there us small village named Kuran where archeology department making excavation for old Hadappa culture .
We also greeted BSF soldiers staying at top of hill for radar ad exchanged sweets with them. Wide dining hall, staying rooms, gaushalay, shiv temple, dhuno, entry point( closed ) for tunnel towards Girnar are spots to be seen. Hirabhai Rajde is key person to maintain all this.
Government his included this site in Ranotsav and on Dutt Jayanti there is padyatra from Bhuj to this hill and dharma sabha, yagna, bhajans are done here.
Ask all hindus to visit this place near border and make people of borders area to stay there, not to leave mother land. Various religious activities will work as watch dog to protect border against anti social activites.


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