In Bharat to do pilgrimage there are
8 temples/idols of the Ashtavinayaka ,
7 Sapta Puri holy cities,
4 Dhams (Char Dham)
12 Jyotirlinga devoted to Shiva,
51 Shakti Pithas
The eight temples/idols of the Ashtavinayaka in their religious sequence are:
Ashtavinayaka Temples
Temple Location
1 Mayureshwar Temple - Morgaon, Pune district
2 Siddhivinayak Temple - Siddhatek, Ahmednagar district
3 Ballaleshwar Temple - Pali, Raigad district
4 Varada Vinayak Temple - Mahad, Raigad district
5 Chintamani Temple - Theur, Pune district
6 Girijatmaj Temple - Lenyadri, Pune district
7 Vighneshwar Temple - Ozar, Pune district
8 Mahaganapati Temple - Ranjangaon, Pune district
Sapta Puri modern names of these seven cities are:
(bless the pilgrim with moksha which means liberation from the cycle of birth and death)
1.Ayodhya
2.Mathura
3.Haridwar (Maya or Gaya)
4.Varanasi (Kashi)
5.Kanchipuram (Kanchi)
6.Ujjain (Avantika)
7.Dwarka (Dwaraka)
The four dhama are
1.Dham of Satyuga- Badrinath, Uttarakhand
2.Dham of Tretayuga -Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
3.Dham of Dwaparayuga - Dwarka, Gujarat
4.Dham of Kaliyuga - Jagannatha Puri, Odisha.
Twelve jyothirlinga are
1.Somnath in Gujarat,
2.Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andra Pradesh,
3.Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh,
4.Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh,
5.Kedarnath in Himalayas,
6.Bhimashankar in Maharashtra,
7.Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,
8.Triambakeshwar in Maharashtra,
9.Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga at Deogarh in Jharkhand,
10.Nageswar at Dwarka in Gujarat,
11.Rameshwar at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and
12.Ghushmeshwar at Shiwar in Sawai Madhopur district Rajasthan,
12th joytrilinga is Grishneshwar at ellora in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district Maharashtra.
