About this stamp
Badrinath
Badrinath, or Badrinarayan, stands beside the Alaknanda in Chamoli district and is, according to India Post, the most visited temple in India. It takes its name from the badri tree under which Vishnu is believed to have meditated, and it appears in the Vishnu Purana, the Skanda Purana and the Divya Prabandham of the Tamil saints. Its Mata Murti ka Mela commemorates the descent of the Ganga to earth, and pilgrims make offerings here for their ancestors.
On the Stamp
The ₹15 stamp shows the brightly painted front of the temple, with its gateway and golden roof, against green mountains.
One of four stamps issued on 29 November 2019 on Char Dham, Uttarakhand: Yamunotri and Gangotri at ₹10, Kedarnath and Badrinath at ₹15. The Char Dham Yatra takes in all four holy sites, and in Hindu tradition the journey is complete only when the devotee visits all of them. The stamps were designed by Alka Sharma, with text by Anika Singh, and printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad, in sheetlets, 25,000 of each of five types.
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