 The portions of Shiva's body later appeared at four other locations; and collectively, these five places came to be known as the five Kedaras ("Panch Kedar"); the head of the bull appeared at the location of Rudranath.The "Mahabharata", which gives the account of the Pandavas and the Kurukshetra War, does not mention any place called Kedarnath.One of the earliest references to Kedarnath occurs in the "Skanda Purana" (c. 7th-8th century), which contains a story describing the origin of the Ganges river.