{"id":2778,"date":"2015-12-23T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2015-12-23T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:50:59","slug":"somnath-temple-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/somnath-temple-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Somnath Temple , Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Somnath Temple , Gujarat<\/strong> also mentioned as Deo Pattan<\/strong>, Prabhas Pattan<\/strong>, or Somnath Pattan<\/strong>\u00a0is situated in Prabhas Kshetra<\/strong> , of Viraval<\/strong> town on the South – West cost of Gujarat state \u00a0of India \u00a0, is one of the twelve Jotirlings Shrine of Lord Shiva<\/strong> ,\u00a0the location of this temple,\u00a0Strange but fact , it lies in a straight line to South Pole, in between \u00a0there is only water.<\/strong>\u00a0no land mass other than the Antarctica ice in between .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Somnath Temple Gujarat<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

\u00a0The research done by the Vadic Shodh Sanatan Varanasi<\/strong> on ancient Hindu Puranas<\/strong> (classical text) Prabhas Khand of Skandh Puran<\/strong>. The first Jyotirling<\/strong> Pran Pratistha at Somnath <\/b>Temple<\/strong> was performed on the third day of Shukla Paksha<\/strong> of Shravan<\/strong> month of the 10th<\/sup> Treta Yug<\/strong> of\u00a0 Vaivaswati Manvantar<\/strong> i.e. over 70 million years ago .
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Somnath Temple at night<\/p><\/div>
\nThe present temple structure was constructed over the ruins of the old temple, the reconstruction, the pran pratishtha<\/strong> was done on 11 May 1951 by the then President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad,<\/strong> it was completed and dedicated to the worshipers on 1st<\/sup> December 1995 by the then President of India Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma .<\/strong>
\nAccording to legends the first temple was built by Lord Chandra (Moon God<\/b>) to be relieved from the curse of his father-in-law, Dakasha Prajapati<\/strong>, whose 27 daughter was married to Chandra. Because of curse, Lord Chandra had lost its luster. Then advice from Lord Brahma<\/strong>, Chandra \u00a0worship Lord Shiva at this place (Prabhas Tirtha<\/b>). Pleased with the devotion and (penance<\/b>) Tapasya Lord blessed him to be partly relieved from the curse , which resulted in fifteen days of reducing shine (Krishna Paksha<\/b>) and fifteen days for increase in shine ( Shulka Paksha )<\/strong> In praise , Lord Chandra built a temple in gold. It is said Ravana the king of Lanka and devotee of Lord Shiva<\/strong> built it in silver followed by Lord Krishna<\/strong> built the temple in sandalwood and in\u00a0the 10th century it was rebuilt in stone by King Bhimdev Solanki<\/strong>.
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Somnath Temple in the morning<\/p><\/div>
\nThis temple Somnath <\/b>(the protector of Moon God) and \u201cThe shrine eternal\u201d <\/b>although the temple has been destroyed six times, it has been rebuilt every time.\u00a0“The Somnath temple signifies that the power of reconstruction is always greater than the power of destruction”<\/strong>
\nIt is said Lord Brahama<\/strong> installed a Bharama Shila<\/strong> and paved way for the construction of the temple. It is also said the Lord Chandra<\/strong> and the other Deva\u2019s<\/strong> requested Lord Shiva<\/strong> to be known as Somchandra<\/strong> and reside in the form of Jotirlinga<\/strong> here eternally.
\nThere are other significant places as per Hindu mythology to visit are Bhalka Tirath<\/strong> , here Lord Krishna<\/strong> was shot by an arrow in his foot, this place have a temple and a legendary tree under which Lord Krishna was taking rest .
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Hiran , Kapila and Saraswati Triveni Ghat<\/p><\/div>
\nTriveni Ghat<\/strong> where three rivers Hiran , Kapila<\/strong>\u00a0and legendry Saraswati<\/strong> meets . The temple built by Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar of Indore ,\u00a0The cave dedicated to Lord Krishna’s brother Balram<\/strong> , where he transformed into a snake and went to Patal Lok<\/strong>. A cave and a temple dedicated to \u00a0Adi Shankaracharya<\/strong> where he meditated more than thousand years ago .
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The Somnath Temple , Gujarat also mentioned as Deo Pattan, Prabhas Pattan, or Somnath Pattan\u00a0is situated in Prabhas Kshetra , of Viraval town on the South – West cost of Gujarat state \u00a0of India \u00a0, is one of the twelve Jotirlings Shrine of Lord Shiva ,\u00a0the location of this temple,\u00a0Strange but fact , it lies … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,19,21,1],"tags":[139,140,294,296,321,567,615,1055,1221,1370,1445,1579,1580,1581,1591,1592,1606,1623,1864,2174,2175,2176,2238,2289,2529,2652,2653,2654,2664,2799,2822,2930,2937,2998,3001,3005],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-uncategorized","tag-antarctica","tag-antartica","tag-bhalka-tirath","tag-bharama-shila","tag-bhimdev-solanki","tag-dakasha-prajapati","tag-deo-pattan","tag-hindu-puranas","tag-jyotirling","tag-king-bhimdev-solanki","tag-krishna-paksha","tag-lord-braham","tag-lord-brahama","tag-lord-brahma","tag-lord-chandra","tag-lord-chandra-moon-god","tag-lord-krishna","tag-lord-shiva","tag-moon-god","tag-prabhas-kshetra","tag-prabhas-pattan","tag-prabhas-tirtha","tag-rajendra-prasad","tag-ravana","tag-shankar-dayal-sharma-according","tag-somnath-patan","tag-somnath-pattan","tag-somnath-temple","tag-south-pole","tag-tapasya-lord","tag-temple","tag-treta-yug","tag-triveni-ghat","tag-vadic-shodh-sanatan-varanasi","tag-vaidic-shodha-sansthan","tag-vaivaswati-manvantar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}