Know about 12 Jyotirlingas and their significance
A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a fiery column of light. ‘Jyoti’ means ‘radiance’ and Lingam, the Shiva Lingam-‘the mark or sign’ of the Almighty or the phallus symbol. Hence, Jyotirlingam means the the radiant sign of the Almighty. There are twelve traditional Jyotirlinga shrines in India. 1. Somnath Temple, Gujarat Believed to be the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, the Somnath temple is located in Prabhas Patan. It is considered to be one of the most important pilgrimages in India and a great tourist spot in Gujarat. Somnath means “Lord of the Soma”, an epithet of Shiva.According to Shiv Puran, the moon was married to 27 daughters of Daksha Prajapati, of which Rohini was most favoured. Daksha, cursed the moon, seeing the injustice to his other daughters. So the moon and Rohini together came and worshipped the Sparsa Lingam, to be uplifted from this curse. After the penance, he was blessed by Shiva to regain his lost beauty ...