Kurukshetra

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About
Kurukshetra
About Kurukshetra -
Present
🞇 Kurukshetra is a city situated at a distance
of 160 kms. from Delhi, the capital of
India, on the NH-1 highway.

🞇 The railway station, known as Kurukshetra

Junction, is located on Delhi-Ambala
railway line.

🞇 It is
an important place in the state of
Haryana. Kurukshetra city is the district
town of the district Kurukshetra.
 Historic
🞇 The Perspectives
history of Kurukshetra is very old. During
ancient times King Kuru of the Bharata dynasty
founded the capital of his kingdom in the place.

🞇 Thus this place was named after him.

🞇 In Puranas, this place was also aptly

named as Dharmakshetra.

🞇 Witnessed the biggest epic of India, the

Mahabharata, was woven around this place. Even
it is said that the whole of Bhagbadgita,
 How to
Reach ?
🞇 Kurukshetra Junction
Station is: 160 Kms.
from Delhi

🞇 Nearest Airport –
Chandigarh-94
Kms.

🞇 Kurukshetra is on
Grand Trunk Road
& well connected
with Road Network
Too.
 Tourist
Attractions
🞇 Brahma Sarovar
🞇 Panorama Science
Observatory
🞇 Shree Krishna
Museum & Art
Gallery
🞇 Kurukshetra
University
Dharohar Museum.
🞇 Jyotisar Teerth
🞇 Kalpana Chawla
Planetarium
 Tourist
Attractions
🞇 Bhadrakali Temple
(One of 51
Shaktipeeths)
🞇 Sheikh Chili's Tomb
🞇 Jindal park
🞇 Bhisma Kund
🞇 Birla Temple
🞇 SV Tirupati Balaji
Temple Kurukshetra
🞇 Gyan Mandir (Under
Construction ) Based
on
18 Lessons of
Shrimadbhagvad Geeta
 Most Visited Tourist
Attractions
–Brahm
🞇 Braham Sarovar
Sarovar, as
the name suggests,
is associated with
Lord Brahma, the
c reator of the
Universe.
🞇 Taking dip in holy
water of sarover
during Solar Eclipse is
considered equal to
the merits of
performing thousands
of Asvamedha Yajnas.
 Most Visited Tourist
Attractions
–Panorama
🞇 Kurukshetra Panorama &
Science C entre (KPSC )
in Kurukshetra, working
under the National
Council of Science
Museums (NCSM),
Ministry of Culture,
Govt. of India. Various
interactive models,
exhibitions, educational
programmes and
activities throughout the
year after the
inauguration on 6th
March 2001 by the then
Hon’ble former Prime
Minister Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee.
 Shri Krishna Museum &
Art Gallery
🞇 The museum, unravels
the mystique of the
cult of Lord Krishna.
🞇 It endeavors to
present the
multifaceted
personality of Krishna
as narrated in the
episodes of
Mahabharata and the
Bhagvata Purana.
🞇 The museum has six
galleries, three each
in two blocks.
 Jyotisar
🞇 Jyotisar is the place
where the sacred
Jyotisar, the birth place
of Gita, is the most
venerated tirtha of
Kurukshetra. It is
believed that
Mahabharata battle
started from Jyotisar,
where on the eve of the
battle deluded Arjuna
received the eternal
message of Gita from its
propounder Lord Krishna.
 Bhadrakali
Temple
🞇 The Bhadrakali Temple
is situated on the
Jhansa Road in the
town of Thanesar in
the district of
Kurukshetra. Bhadrakali
is a form of Shakti.
🞇 This is considered to be
one of the
51 Shakti 'pithas' of India.
It is believed that an
anklet of Sati fell in the
well.
🞇 The mythical incident
of Sati is being
recalled here with a
marble ankle.