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Daksh Prajaapati
Bhaagvat Puraan,
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According to one myth when Daksh did a Yagya and he did not invite his
daughter Satee and her husband Shiv, Satee was filled with rage and self
immolated herself in the sacrificial fire. In turn Shiv arrived there and
seeing his wife's body already burnt, he also filled with rage. He tore it
from the flames, hung it on his shoulder and started dancing his cosmic
dance. all the gods present there witnessed the destruction, then they
requested to Vishnu to intervene. He did, He took His Chakra, dislodged
Satee's body from Shiv's shoulder and cut it into 51 pieces which were flung
far. The place each one fell became a place of pilgrimage - a Peeth Sthaan.
Kaalee's little toe fell at Kaalee Ghaat. The place, Kaalee Kshetra or
Kaalikat, gave the city its name.
[India Handbook, p 659]
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