The Panch Prayag: Five Confluences, Five Stories
The legend behind each of the five sacred confluences on the Alaknanda — Vishnuprayag, Nandaprayag, Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag, and Devprayag. Read together they form a literary sequence that turns the highway from Rishikesh to Badrinath into a coherent narrative geography.
Panch Prayag
Vishnuprayag
Nandaprayag
Karnaprayag
Rudraprayag
Devprayag
tirtha etymology
sthala-purana
confluence sacralization
Raghunath temple Devprayag
Karna Mahabharata
Narad Muni