Ṭaṇṭāvi
Ṭaṇṭāvi
Ṭaṇṭāvi is a beautiful peak of the mountain Nāmavratadharā in the holy Jambūmārga. In the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa it is the seat of the tapas of crores of munis in the Satya Yuga, in the āśrama-maṇḍala of Bhṛgu Maharshi, where Bhagavān Śaṅkara and Jaganmātā Pārvatī came to give them darśana.
The tapovana of the munis
Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira, in the account of the Govatsa Dvādaśī, that in the Satya Yuga, in the holy Jambūmārga (glossed in the text as Bharuch), on the beautiful peak named Ṭaṇṭāvi of the mountain named Nāmavratadharā, crores of munis were performing tapas, wishing for the darśana of Bhagavān Śaṅkara. That tapovana was adorned with incomparable divine forests and was the āśrama-maṇḍala of Bhṛgu Maharshi. It was full of many kinds of deer and monkeys, and lions and all the other wild animals lived there together, joyful and without fear.
To give darśana to those munis, Bhagavān Śaṅkara took the guise of an old brāhmaṇa, worn of body, trembling, a stick in his hand, and came to that place. Jaganmātā Pārvatī took the form of a beautiful cow with her calf and appeared there too.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 69
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 69