About this stamp
Yamunotri
Yamunotri, the source of the Yamuna, is the first of the four dhams of Uttarakhand. Devotees believe that a dip here washes away their sins. Its temple was built by the king of Tehri in 1839 and holds a black marble image of the goddess Yamuna, with Ganga Devi in white stone beside her. Near the temple is the hot spring of Surya Kund, in which pilgrims boil rice and potatoes to take home as the goddess’s prasad.
On the Stamp
The ₹10 stamp shows the temple’s tall orange spire and roof against the forested hillside.
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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