{"id":328,"date":"2018-03-14T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:17:21","slug":"brahma-kamal-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/brahma-kamal-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahma Kamal State Flower of Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives…” (Mary Oliver)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Brahma Kamal is far more than just a beautiful flower. It is Uttarakhand’s state flower, one of the rarest Himalayan blooms, and a deeply sacred offering at the shrines of Kedarnath<\/a> and Badrinath<\/a>. Understanding this flower means understanding something essential about the Garhwal Himalayas themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

What can one say about the glory of flowers? The mere sight of flowers reminds us of the sublime horizons that lie beyond the corporeal. What can one then say of a flower whose very name speaks of its exaltation as the supreme \u2014 Brahma Kamal? The name translates to ‘The Lotus of Lord Brahma’. In pictorial depictions of Lord Brahma, the Creator of the Cosmos, he is often shown holding this specific lotus. Some myths even claim that the Creator was born from this flower, hence the name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brahma Kamal is venerated as the official state flower of Uttarakhand \u2014 the Devbhoomi. It holds significant spiritual importance in many Hindu Puranic texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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