Late medieval · Hindu · India

Brahma Temple, Pushkar

Pushkar, Rajasthan · 26.4872°, 74.5503°

BrahmaRajputNagara (red spire)
Sacred since
500 BCE
Pushkar lake tirtha of great antiquity
Standing structure
current structure 14th c., renewed 18th c.
Rajput

History & significance

The most important of the world's very few Brahma temples, by the lake where the creator himself performed his great yajna. The Kartik Purnima fair — bathing festival and camel fair together — turns Pushkar into one of Rajasthan's greatest gatherings; the town remains meat- and alcohol-free.

Sthala katha — the legend

Brahma's lotus fell to earth and springs welled where its petals struck — Pushkar, 'the lotus pool'. When his wife Savitri came late to the yajna and found Gayatri seated in her place, she cursed Brahma to be worshipped nowhere else on earth but here.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-26 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Rajput