Trimbak
Trambak | |
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City | |
 Trimbak city as seen from the Brahmagiri hill | |
  Trimbak Location in Maharashtra, India | |
| Coordinates: 19°56′N 73°32′E / 19.93°N 73.53°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Nashik |
| Named for | Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Council |
| • Body | Trimbak Municipal Council |
| Elevation | 750 m (2,460 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 12,056 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Vehicle registration | MH-15 |
Trimbak (also known as Trimbakeshwar Trayambakēśvara) is a city and a municipal council in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple is located here, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, where the Hindu genealogy registers at Trimbakeshwar, Maharashtra are kept. The origin of the sacred Godavari River is near Trimbak.
The Simhastha Kumbh Mela in the Nashik district was originally held at Trimbak, but after 1789 clash between Vaishnavites and Saivites over precedence of bathing, the Maratha Peshwa shifted the Vaishnavites' bathing place to Ramkund in Nashik city.[2] The Shaivites continue to regard Trimbak as the proper location of the Mela.[3]
- ^ District Census Handbook: Nashik
- ^ James G. Lochtefeld (2008). "The Kumbha Mela festival processions". In Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.). South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora. Routledge. p. 33. ISBN 9781134074594.
- ^ Vaishali Balajiwale (13 July 2015). "Project Trimbak, not Nashik, as the place for Kumbh: Shaiva akhadas". DNA.