<h1 class="ql-align-center">Mata Sharda Devi Temple</h1> <h3>Context</h3><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation e-inaugurated Maa Sharda Devi Temple at Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir.</li><li>About&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sharda peeth is an abandoned Hindu temple and ancient center of learning.&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">It is located at Neelum Valley in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir across Teetwal village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district along the Line of Control.&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sharda peeth is the most revered religious place for Kashmiri Pandits.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">The temple is one of the 18 Maha Shakti Peethas and is considered to be the abode of Hindu Goddess Saraswati.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sharda-script - Sharda is the original script of Kashmir.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sharda Peeth had been a historical center of India's cultural, religious, and educational heritage.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">It was a center of learning known as Sharda Peeth or Sarvajna Peetha.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">It is situated in the valley of Mount Harmukh, believed by Kashmiri Pandits to be the abode of Shiva.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sharada Peeth translates to "the seat of Sharada", the Kashmiri name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">"Sharada" could be also related to the proto-Nostratic terms "sarv", which means "flow or stream", and daw (blow, tip or rock), because it was located at the confluence of three streams.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">It was probably commissioned by Lalitaditya Muktapida though no definitive evidence exists in favor.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Between the 6th and 12th centuries CE, it was among the most prominent temple universities in the Indian subcontinent.</li></ul> <h1 class="ql-align-center">PRELIMS NOTES:<a href="https://www.sunyaias.com/subscription-details/prelims-2023-sunya-notes-current-affairs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">CLICK HERE</a></h1>