Naina Devi Temple

NAINA DEVI TEMPLE

At an altitude of over 6500 feet lies the lake city of Nainital in the hills of Uttarakhand in Himalayas. At the upper end of the vast green lake of Nainital is an ancient Devi temple  It is believed that this Naina devi temple  is one of the  Shakti Peeths,  of the goddess Sati.

Various legends explain how the Shakti Peetha of naina devi came into being.

According to a legend when Sati immolated herself (that would be a long story for later)   grief striken  Shiva picked up the remains of Sati's body, and performed the Tandava, the celestial dance of destruction.

Bhagwan Vishnu was requested to intervene to stop this destruction.  Vishnu used the Sudarshana Chakra, which cut  Sati's body into pieces. Parts of the body fell all over the Indian subcontinent and formed sites which  came to be known as Shakti Peethas today.

The Eyes of devi (Nain is the sanskrit word for eye) fell at the site  thus known as Nainital (tal being the sanskrit word for lake).

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