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Buxar: where Tadaka fell and Rama bathed
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Rama's first 'sin-cleansing' Shiva temple is in Bihar, long before Rameswaram.
Tradition places Rama's killing of the demoness Tadaka at Buxar, Bihar. To cleanse the sin of killing a woman he bathed in the Ganga at Ram Rekha Ghat and installed a Shivling, now the Rameshwarnath temple.
Who: Rama, Tadaka, Vishvamitra
Bound to
Rameswaram: two lingams, one from Kailash mirror
Places: Buxar, Bihar
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- modern-popular · IRCTC Ramayana sites PDF
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