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SOMNATH TEMPLE              

21st January, 2022

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Context

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Circuit House at Somnath today.

 

About

  • The Somnath temple (also known as the Deo Patan) located in Veraval in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, is the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva.
  • As documented by J. Gordon Melton, the first Shiva temple at Somnath is said to have been built at some unknown time in the past.
  • The second temple is said to have been built at the same site by the "Yadava kings" of Vallabhi around 649 CE.
  • The Gurjara-Pratihara king Nagabhata II constructed the third temple in 815 CE, a large structure of red sandstone.
  • The present temple was reconstructed in the Chaulukya style of Hindu temple architectureand completed in 1951.
  • Presently the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is the chairman of Somnath Mandir trust.

About Jyotirlingam

  • A Jyotirlinga or Jyotirlingam, is a devotional representation of the Hindu god Shiva.
  • There are 64 original Jyotirlinga shrines in India and Nepal, 12 of which are most sacred and they are called the Maha Jyotirlingam.
  • Out of 12 Jyotirlingas, the southernmost of these is located at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu while the northernmost is located in the Himalayas at Kedarnath in Uttarkhand.

 

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