[Advaita-l] shakti pithas

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

Kameshwar Rao wrote:

> 2. ODYNA : (ODYANA PITHA NILAYA BINDU MANDALA VASINI) As I saw on ur 
> messages, exactly it is connecting to Ajna chakra only. it is BIRAJA 
> (DURGA) Temple at jaipur district in ORISSA. Mother Goddess Biraja 
> (Durga) is its presiding deity- The Baitaranai Kshetra-Jaipur town is 
> situated at a distance of 92 kms. form the silver city of Cuttack and 
> 120 kms from the state capital, Bhubaneswar

Seshan Narayanan wrote:

> Kanchipuram was called the Oudyana peeta if I am not wrong...
>

I would be interested to know your sources and reasons for these sites. 
The evidence I've seen so far from Hindu and Buddhist tantric 
sources suggests the 4 pithas are aligned on the axis of the Himalayas and 
Odayana was either in the Swat valley area of what is now Pakistan or even 
Afghanistan.  (Both of which were culturally part of India in those days.)

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>