ceremonies while Vishnu would be worshipped till the end of eternity.
The jyotirlinga is regarded to be the supreme partless reality,
out of which Shiva partly appears. The jyotirlinga shrines are believed to be the places where Shiva is said to have appeared as a
fiery column of light. Originally, there were believed to have been 64 jyotirlingas, of which the present 12 are considered to be
[21][23]
sacred to Shiva. Each of the twelve jyotirlinga sites take the name of the presiding deity - each considered a different manifestation
[22]
of Shiva. At all these sites, the primary image is the lingam representing the stambha pillar, symbolising the infinite nature of Shiva
[24]
(without beginning or end). The twelve jyotirlinga are Somnath at Veraval in Gujarat, Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andhra
[24][25][26]
Pradesh, Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, Omkareshwar in Madhya
Pradesh, Kedarnath in Himalayas, Bhimashankar in Maharashtra, Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Triambakeshwar in
Maharashtra, Vaidyanath at Deoghar in Jharkhand, Nageswar at Dwarka in Gujarat, Rameshwar at Rameswaram in Tamil
Nadu and Grishneshwar at Aurangabad, Maharashtra. This temple is the southernmost of all the twelve Jyotirlingas.
[22][27] [28]
In the news[edit]
The temple is maintained and administered by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of the Government of
Tamil Nadu. The temple comes under the renovation and consecration of the 630 temples planned by the Hindu Religious and
[29]
Charitable Endowments Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. Temple authorities had planned to renovate and widen the
[30]
pathways to the 22 holy theerthams of the temple. The consecration of the temple was planned during 2013. The temple is
[30] [30]
among those offering free meals under the Free Meals Scheme of the government, which provides meals to devotees of the temple.
A pilgrim house is planned by the government to extend the scheme to more pilgrims. [30]
See also[edit]
Tirthas of Rameswaram
Dhanushkodi
Notes[edit]
1. ^ "King 'Rebel' remembered". The Hindu. 31 March 2016.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e V., Meena. Temples in South India. Kanniyakumari: Harikumar Arts. pp. 11–12.
3. ^ BANSAL, SUNITA PANT (15 November 2012). Hindu Pilgrimage. V&S Publishers. ISBN 978-93-5057-251-1.
4. ^ Jump up to:a b c Cole 1885, pp. clxvi-clxvii
5. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Bandopadhyay, pp. 88-89
6. ^ "Sri Lanka in Early Indian Inscriptions": 5. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. ^ Burgess, Jas; Sastri, S. M. (Tr.) (1886). Archaeological Survey of Southern India, Vol. IV; Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions, with some Notes on
Village Antiquites, collected chiefly in the South of the Madras Presidency. Madras: E. Keys, the Government Press.
8. ^ M. 2003, p. 154
9. ^ Jump up to:a b Singh 2009, p. 18
10. ^ Jump up to:a b c d T. 2007, p. 28
11. ^ Branfoot, Crispin (1 June 2008). "Imperial Frontiers: Building Sacred Space in Sixteenth-Century South India". The Art Bulletin. 90 (2). College Art
Association: 186. doi:10.1080/00043079.2008.10786389. JSTOR 20619601. S2CID 154135978.
12. ^ Murali 2000, p. 574
13. ^ Setu Māhātmyam, Adhyāya 2, verse 104
14. ^ Setu Māhātmyam, Adhyāya 1, verse 24
15. ^ Seturaman 2001, p. 216
16. ^ Karkar, S.C. (2009). The Top Ten Temple Towns of India. Kolkota: Mark Age Publication. p. 38. ISBN 978-81-87952-12-1.
17. ^ Chakravarti 1994, p. 140
18. ^ Mittal 2004, p. 482
19. ^ Brockman 2011, pp. 94-96
20. ^ Mittal 2004, pp. 482-3
21. ^ Jump up to:a b c Gwynne 2008, Section on Char Dham
22. ^ Jump up to:a b c R. 2003, pp. 92-95
23. ^ Eck 1999, p. 107
24. ^ Jump up to:a b Lochtefeld 2002, pp. 324-325
25. ^ Harding 1998, pp. 158-158
26. ^ Vivekananda Vol. 4
27. ^ Chaturvedi 2006, pp. 58-72
28. ^ Diwakar, Macherla (2011). Temples of South India (1st ed.). Chennai: Techno Book House. pp. 158–9. ISBN 978-93-83440-34-4.
29. ^ "Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959". Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
30. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Zee News 2012
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