Yoga Dhyan Badri, Pandukeshwar

Winter seat traditions and meditative Badri form below Badrinath road.

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History

Yoga Dhyan Badri at Pandukeshwar is one of the Panch Badri, on the road below Badrinath. It is linked to winter-seat traditions and to a meditative (yoga-dhyana) form of Badri Vishnu.

Legends

• The Pandavas are said to have installed or worshipped Vishnu here; Pandukeshwar takes its name from Pandu.