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Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Lakshmi as the badri tree at Badrinath

Vishnu meditates in the Himalaya while Lakshmi shelters him as a badri tree; the sages Nara and Narayana choose the site; Shankara recovers the image from the hot spring.

Badrinarayan, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Nara and Narayana

The Himalaya