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Baghelkhand
• Sacred Geography:
• Pilgrimages:
• Baghelkhand (Madhya Pradesh):
► Mandakini (of Chitrakoot) (50 km) Udgam
- Chitrakoot Atri-Anusuya Ashram (Mandakini of Chitrakoot Udgam)
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- Chitrakoot (Madhya Pradesh side) (Shakti Peetha) (Mandakini of Chitrakoot Udgam)
- Dandakaranya (Entry region to Dandakaranya)
► Chitrakoot
(Shakti Peetha)(Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh)
(Satna district, Madhya Pradesh)
☗ Chitrakoota Mountain
☸ Chitrakoota Forest (Puranic)
▬ River Mandakini (Payaswini) flows
- Ram Ghat - Raghav Prayag Ghat - Bharat Ghat - Raj Ghat
(Bundelkhand)
(Baghelkhand)
(Valmiki Ramayana)
(Peetha Nirnaya Tantra)
- Sri Rama visited the hermitage of sage Valmiki while entering Chitrakoota.
- Sri Rama stayed in Chitrakoota during forest exile in a Parna Shala (Leaf Hut). During his stay in Chitrakoota, Sri Rama described the beauty of Chitrakoota Mountain and river Mandakini to Devi Sita.
- Sri Rama gave his Padukas to Bharata in Chitrakoota.
- Sri Rama visited the hermitage of sage Atri and Devi Anusuiya while leaving Chitrakoota.
► Dandakaranya(Satna district, Madhya Pradesh)
(Panna district, Madhya Pradesh)
(Bastar division, Chhattisgarh)
☸ Dandakaranya Forest
(Baghelkhand) (Entry region to Dandakaranya)
(Bastar Plateau) (Core Dandakaranya)
(Dandakaranya Highlands) (Core Dandakaranya)
- Sri Rama encountered demon Viradha in the Dandakaranya forest.
- Sri Rama visited the hermitage of sage Sharabhanga in the Dandakaranya forest.
- Sri Rama visited the hermitage of sage Suteekshna in the Dandakaranya forest.
- Sri Rama stayed in the Dandakaranya forest for ten years in various hermitages.
- Sri Rama revisited the hermitage of sage Suteekshna in the Dandakaranya forest after ten years.
- Sri Rama visited the hermitage of sage Agastya in the outer fringe of Dandakaranya forest near Panchavati.