Indragopa (Mountain)
Indragopa · indra-gopa, “guarded by Indra”
Indragopa is an excellent mountain among the last tīrthas of the Gautamī Gaṅgā, near the place where she joins the eastern sea. On it is Adri-tīrtha, where Himālaya, the king of mountains, installed a great liṅga. The Brahma Purāṇa names it in the Gautamī Māhātmya, where Brahmā tells Nārada of the tīrthas of the Gautamī.
Adri-tīrtha on Indragopa
Brahmā tells Nārada how the Gautamī, worthy of honour even from the devas, joined the eastern sea, followed by all the devas and praised by the ṛshis and the Maruts, and he names the tīrthas there one after another: Somatīrtha, Āgneya-tīrtha, Āditya-tīrtha and Bārhaspatya-tīrtha. Then he says that another tīrtha is on the excellent mountain Indragopa. There, for some reason, the great liṅga was installed by Himālaya, the mountain-king; and so it is called Adri-tīrtha, the tīrtha of the mountain.
Bath (snāna) and gifts (dāna) at that tīrtha yield auspicious results that fulfil one’s cherished desires.
With this Brahmā ends his account of the tīrthas: the Gautamī Gaṅgā rises from Brahmādri, the mountain of Brahmā, and goes on to the ocean, and the few tīrthas he has told are auspicious and holy secrets.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 104
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 104