चन्द्रगुप

चन्द्रगुप (उर्दू: چندرگپ‎, अंग्रेज़ी: Chandragup), जिसे कभी-कभी चन्द्रकुप (Chandrakup) भी कहा जाता है, पाकिस्तान के पश्चिमी बलोचिस्तान प्रान्त के तटीय मकरान क्षेत्र में स्थित एक गारामुखी (लावा के स्थान पर मिट्टी-कीचड़ उगलने वाला ज्वालामुखी) है। ५८ मीटर ऊँचा यह गारामुखी एक शुद्ध शंकु (कोन) का आकार रखता है। इस क्षेत्र में कई सारे गारामुखी मिलते हैं और चन्द्रगुप इनमें से एक है।^[1] यह हिंगोल नदी के मुख के पास स्थित है।^[2]

धार्मिक महत्व

इस क्षेत्र के गारामुखी हिन्दुओं द्वारा पवित्र माने जाते हैं और इनमें चन्द्रगुप का विशेष स्थान है। पास के हिंगलाज तीर्थ स्थल जाते हुए तीर्थयात्री विशेष रूप से चन्द्रगुप पर रुकते हैं। कुछ हिन्दू समुदायों में इन गारामुखियों को बाभखनाथ नामक देवता का डेरा माना जाता है।^[3]

इन्हें भी देखें

बाहरी कड़ियाँ

ग्वादर यात्रा में चन्द्रगुप गारामुखी, हिन्दी-उर्दू में चन्द्रगुप के नजारों के साथ यू-ट्यूब पर वीडियो
बलोचिस्तान के गारामुखी (अंग्रेज़ी में), ओवेस मुग़ल द्वारा लिखित बलोचिस्तान के गारामुखियों की सैर का यात्रा-वृतांत
जय शाह की माता हिंगलाज की तीर्थयात्रा (अंग्रेज़ी में)

सन्दर्भ

↑ Muddy Coasts of the World: Processes, Deposits, and Function, pp. 149, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-0-444-51019-8, ... The Las Bela Coastal Plain in Baluchistan is also renown for the occurrence of mud volcanoes (Snead 1964). The largest one of these, the Chandragup, forms an almost perfect cone 58 m high ...
↑ Mineral wealth: A guide to the occurrences and economics of the useful minerals of India, Pakistan and Burma, John Coggin Brown, Abani Kumar Dey, pp. 107, Gyan Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-8205-483-7, ... No oil seepages are known in Lower Sind, but natural gas is evolved at several places : in Las Bela State and in the Makran, the flows of mud associated with some of the gas shows form mud volcanoes, and those at Chandragup at the mouth of the Hingol River are amongst the largest known ...
↑ Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan Archived 2012-09-15 at the वेबैक मशीन, Owais Mughal, 2 मार्च 2007, All Things Pakistan, Accessed: 25 सितंबर 2012, ... Very close to Chandargup is an ancient Hindu temple called ‘Hinglaj temple’ or ‘Nani Temple’. There are many pronunciations of the word Chandragup in practise. Due to close proximity a Hindu temple to these volcanoes, it is very likely that the word Chandargup is actually derived from the word ‘Chandargupt’. Another word which locally mentions this group of volcanoes is ‘Chandra coop’ which means Volcanoes of the Moon ... The Hindus worship these mud volcanoes as the habitation of a deity Babhaknath ...

[ref06vegor-1] Muddy Coasts of the World: Processes, Deposits, and Function, pp. 149, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-0-444-51019-8, ... The Las Bela Coastal Plain in Baluchistan is also renown for the occurrence of mud volcanoes (Snead 1964). The largest one of these, the Chandragup, forms an almost perfect cone 58 m high ...

[ref37duquv-2] Mineral wealth: A guide to the occurrences and economics of the useful minerals of India, Pakistan and Burma, John Coggin Brown, Abani Kumar Dey, pp. 107, Gyan Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-8205-483-7, ... No oil seepages are known in Lower Sind, but natural gas is evolved at several places : in Las Bela State and in the Makran, the flows of mud associated with some of the gas shows form mud volcanoes, and those at Chandragup at the mouth of the Hingol River are amongst the largest known ...

[ref34safis-3] Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan Archived 2012-09-15 at the वेबैक मशीन, Owais Mughal, 2 मार्च 2007, All Things Pakistan, Accessed: 25 सितंबर 2012, ... Very close to Chandargup is an ancient Hindu temple called ‘Hinglaj temple’ or ‘Nani Temple’. There are many pronunciations of the word Chandragup in practise. Due to close proximity a Hindu temple to these volcanoes, it is very likely that the word Chandargup is actually derived from the word ‘Chandargupt’. Another word which locally mentions this group of volcanoes is ‘Chandra coop’ which means Volcanoes of the Moon ... The Hindus worship these mud volcanoes as the habitation of a deity Babhaknath ...

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