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1, Balahonnur (Raubhapuri) in nadur Mysore; 2) Ujjain in Bellary -
madras; 3) Himavat nedara in Himalaya; 4, Srisaila in Kulnul
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Mauras and
5) K膩艣i in Uttar Prades. The tradition about the live teachers of vira
Saivism was expounded at length in the suprabhedagama (V墨ra Saivendu
艢eknara, 102).
A myth that intends to explain both the origin
of pithas and their sacredness is in the center of Saiva thought and
mychology. According to this myth, the previous wife of Siva
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was sati,
01 Daksa Prajapati's daughters. Daksa was celebrating a great
sacrilice to which neither sati nor siva was invited. sati, nowever,
went to her lather's sacrifice uninvited. As a result of 111-treatment,
sati immolated herself on the paksa's sacrificial pile. Siva became
inconsolable at the death of his beloved Sati, and after the destruction
of Daksa's sacrifice me wandered over the earth dancing manly with sati's
dead body on his shoulders. The gods become anxious to free Siva from
his infatuation and conspired to deprive him of his wife's dead body.
Thereupon Brahma, Visnu and Sani entered the dead body by yoga and
disposed of it gradually. The places where pieces of Sati's dead body
fell are said to have become Pithas, i.e. holy seats or resorts of the
mother-goddess, in all of which she is represented to be constantly
living in some form together with Bhairava, viz. a form of her husband
Siva. According to a modified version of this story, it was Visnu who,
while following Siva, cut Sati's dead body on Siva's shoulders, piece by
piece.
The association of particular limbs with tirthas