Nestled in the foothills of majestic Himalayas and on the banks of Alaknanda River sits the historic town of Srinagar The rock was believed to have taken as many as thousand lives before Adi Shankaracharya  in the 8th century AD  as a part of an undertaking aimed to rejuvenate the Hindu religion across India  visited Srinagar and turned the Sri Yantra upside down and hurled it into the nearby river Alaknanda