Sapta Badri
The fuller circuit of seven Badris adds Dhyan Badri in the Urgam valley and Ardha Badri, a small shrine on a side ridge of the Alaknanda valley, to the Pancha Badri.
Narsingh Badri, the Narasimha temple at Jyotirmath where the Badrinath murti spends the winter, is counted by some in place of one of these. Badrinath itself is the 100th Divya Desam and one of the Char Dham, and the whole valley is the Badrikashram of the Puranas, where Nara and Narayana did tapas.
Temples in this circuit
StandingBadrinath
The northern dham of the Char Dham, on the Alaknanda between the Nar and Narayan ranges, where Bhagwan Narayan sits in tapas. Adi Shankaracharya is said to have recovered the murti from the river and set it back in worship.
StandingAdi Badri Temples, Chamoli
A cluster of stone temples on the road from Karnaprayag to Ranikhet, counted first among the Panch Badri. Fourteen of the sixteen shrines survive and are protected by the ASI.
StandingVridha Badri, Animath
A small temple in Animath village, about 7 km from Jyotirmath, where Bhagwan Vishnu appeared to Devarshi Narada as an old man. It is one of the Sapta Badri and is often counted among the Panch Badri.
StandingDhyan Badri, Urgam
One of the Sapta Badri, the seven seats of Badrinarayan in Garhwal. In the Urgam valley near Kalpeshwar, a black stone Vishnu sits in meditation.
StandingBhavishya Badri, Subhain
The Badri of the future, in the forest above Subhain village at about 2,744 metres. The tradition holds that when the road to Badrinath is closed by the meeting of the Nara and Narayana mountains, Badrinarayana will be worshipped here.
StandingYogadhyan Badri, Pandukeshwar
The Panch Badri temple at Pandukeshwar, where King Pandu did tapas and the Pandavas were born. In winter the utsava murti of Uddhava from Badrinath is brought here and worshipped.
StandingJyotirmath
The northern of the four amnaya mathas founded by Adi Shankaracharya, guardian of the Atharva Veda, and the winter home of Badrinath’s worship.
The full list
- BadrinathUttarakhand (Chamoli)Badri Vishal
- Adi Badri Temples, ChamoliUttarakhand (Chamoli, near Karnaprayag)Adi Badri
- Vridha Badri, AnimathUttarakhand (Chamoli, near Jyotirmath)Vridha Badri
- Dhyan Badri, UrgamUttarakhand (Chamoli district, Urgam valley)Dhyan Badri
- Ardha BadriAlaknanda valley, Chamoli, Uttarakhand (exact site not recorded)
- Bhavishya Badri, SubhainUttarakhand (Chamoli, beyond Tapovan on the Dhauliganga)Bhavishya Badri
- Yogadhyan Badri, PandukeshwarUttarakhand (Chamoli, Pandukeshwar)Yogadhyan Badri
- JyotirmathUttarakhand (Chamoli)Narsingh Badri (counted in some lists)