Manasarovar is a Tibetan lake and holy place (tirtha) at the foot of Mount Kailas.
Pilgrims who are trekking around Mt. Kailas are customarily bathed in the lake before advancing to the peak.
The lake is supposed to be part of the Shakti Pithas, a
network of holy locations dedicated to the Goddess that stretches throughout
the Indian subcontinent.
Each Shakti Pitha commemorates the location where a piece of
the goddess Sati's severed corpse fell to earth and reincarnated as a different
goddess; Manasarovar was Sati's right hand's palm.
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