Hindu Pilgrimage Deoghar - Baidyanath Dham and Shiv Shishya

Deoghar also known as Baidyanath Dham is an important Hindu Pilgrimage Deoghar. Importance of Deoghar in hindu methodology is for twelve jyotirlingas, and also one of the 51 saktipeeths. Deoghar is the only holy place in India where the jyotirlinga and the saktipeeth are together. Each year between July and August about 7 to 8 million devotees come from various part of India to offer holy water from the Ganges at Sultangunj—almost 108 km from Deoghar—to present it to Shiva. An unbroken line of people in saffron-dyed clothes stretches over the full 108 km for the month.