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An idol recovered from the river
The image at the center of Badrinath is not, by the temple committee's own account, an object commissioned for the shrine — it was found. According to that history, and to an account traced to the Skanda Purana, the black stone murti of Badrinarayan was recovered from a pool in the Alaknanda River known as Narad Kund and re-enshrined by Adi Shankaracharya in the eighth century CE, at a time when the philosopher-monk was travelling the Himalayas re-establishing temple worship across a landscape where it had receded. The story names Narad — the itinerant sage of Puranic literature — as the one appointed to keep the deity's worship going afterward, a charge the temple's priestly tradition still traces its authority to.
From a hot spring to a temple
Shankaracharya's first shrine for the recovered image was not the building pilgrims visit today. The temple's own account places the original enshrinement in a cave near Tapt Kund, the hot sulphur spring — a natural spring reaching roughly 45°C — that still sits on the path up to the main temple, where pilgrims bathe before entering. The image moved to its present site only in the sixteenth century, when the King of Garhwal had a larger temple built to house it. The two locations remain linked in the pilgrimage itself: Tapt Kund first, the temple after, in the order the story itself follows.
