Jyotisar: the banyan and the Gita

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Saplings of the Gita banyan are given out for ceremonial planting.

Tradition places the Gita teaching at Jyotisar, Kurukshetra, under a banyan said to descend from the original. Shankara is cited for naming the site. Narkatari commemorates the arrow spring for Bhishma, and Abhimanyupur Abhimanyu's death.

Who: Krishna, Arjuna, Bhishma, Abhimanyu

Places: Jyotisar, Kurukshetra, Haryana, Narkatari, Abhimanyupur

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devotional · Wikipedia: Jyotisar

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