ChitrakootCitrakūṭa

Chitrakoot, the 'Hill of Many Wonders', is a pilgrimage centre in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, on the Mandakini river in the northern Vindhya range; the wider Chitrakoot region is divided between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Tradition holds that Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa spent a significant part of their fourteen years of exile in its forests, and that Bharata came here to plead with Rāma to return to Ayodhya, taking back Rāma's wooden sandals to place on the throne. Pilgrims bathe at Ram Ghat and walk the barefoot parikrama around Kamadgiri hill, and the saint-poet Tulsidas is said to have spent part of his life here.

• Lord Kamtanath
• Hanuman
• Sati Anasuya, with the sage Atri