Adritīrtha (Gautamī)
Adritīrtha · adri-tīrtha, “the tīrtha of the mountain”
Indragopa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Indragopa.
Adritīrtha, “the tīrtha of the mountain”, is a tīrtha on the excellent mountain Indragopa, among the tīrthas Brahmā names as the Gautamī Gaṅgā reaches the eastern sea. Himālaya, the king of mountains, installed a great liṅga of Bhagavān Śiva there, and so it is called Adritīrtha. A holy bath and dāna there bring auspicious results that fulfil one’s cherished desires. Brahmā tells Nārada of it in the last chapter of the Gautamī Māhātmya of the Brahma Purāṇa.
The liṅga of Himālaya
After the Somatīrtha, the Āgneya-tīrtha, the Āditya Tīrtha and the Bārhaspatya tīrtha, Brahmā speaks of another tīrtha on the excellent mountain Indragopa. For some reason the great liṅga was installed there by Himālaya, the mountain (adri). “Hence it is called Adritīrtha.”
Rites and their phala
A holy bath (snāna) and gifts (dāna) at Adritīrtha yield auspicious results that fulfil cherished desires.
With this tīrtha Brahmā closes his account of the Gautamī: rising from Brahmagiri, the mountain of Brahmā, she flows to the ocean, and he says that he has told only a few of her tīrthas, auspicious and holy secrets.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 104
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 104