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अद्यतनित 
त्वरित उत्तरकश्मीर के हिमालय की ऊँचाइयों में, स्वतःस्फूर्त रूप से बनने वाला एक हिम-स्तम्भ प्रत्येक ग्रीष्म ऋतु में सैकड़ों-हज़ारों तीर्थयात्रियों को एक ऐसी गुफा की ओर खींच लाता है जो वर्ष में केवल कुछ ही सप्ताहों तक देव-स्थल बनती रहती है।
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- अंतिम अद्यतन
- 10 सितंबर 2026
The secret told in a cave
Tradition holds that the Amarnath cave is the place where Shiva chose to reveal Amar Katha, the secret of immortality, to Parvati — a story old enough that the shrine is described as having been rediscovered rather than founded. A parallel strand of the same tradition credits the sage Bhrigu with finding the cave and its ice formation after an earlier legendary draining of the Kashmir valley by the sage Kashyapa. Both versions agree on the essential shape of the story: this is a place that had to be found, not built, and its sanctity predates any structure at all — there is no temple building here, only the cave itself.
Ice that waxes and wanes like the moon
The object of pilgrimage is a naturally occurring ice stalagmite inside the cave, formed by water seeping through the rock and freezing in the cold air at an altitude of roughly 13,000 feet. Pilgrims and popular accounts of the shrine describe the ice lingam as waxing and waning with the lunar cycle, said to reach its fullest size around the full moon of the pilgrimage season. Because it depends entirely on temperature and moisture, the lingam's size and shape are never identical two years running — an unusual quality among Hindu pilgrimage sites, where nature rather than craftsmanship provides the murti, re-forming itself every year rather than being renewed by hand.
