SHRI TRAYAMBAKESHWAR JYOTIRLING.
this place is situated in nasik in maharastra. every twelve year, mahakumbha is celebrated on the bank of the river godavari. but kumba bath with out the darshan of god is incomplete.
it is believed that gowtham rishi with his wife ahilya, who was famous for charitable endowment lived here. gowtham rishi did tapasya . due to drought people suffered . Varun, pleased with the tapasya of rishi , asked him to make a hole and varun filled it with akshya water.again prosperity and happiness was there .other rishi's got jealous and started accusing gowtham rishi of go hatya (cow slaughtered ).gowtham rishi did tapasya again and worshipped one crore earthern shiva linga. pleased shiva declared him innocent. rishi's and devas requested shiva to reside there. so on that akshaya hole he existed as jyotirlinga. there are three small shiva lingas inside representing brahma, vishnu and shiva.godavari river water keeps flowing in that hole.
SHRI BHIDYANATHESWAR JYOTIRLINGA.vaidhyanatheswar.
this place is situated in devghar in bihar , became famous as baidhyanath dham. here linga is just 11finger tall.with a pressed impression on its head.
story of gokarna and this place is similar.ravana offered severe penanace to lord shiva.as he wanted shiva to stay in sri lanka. when Shiva did not appear, he started chopping off his head one by one. when only one was left and pleased by his determination shiva appeared and joined the head and body like a vaidya . so this place is called vaidyanath jyotirlinga.he requested shiva to come with him but shiva gave a jyotirlinga, to be taken with a condition that it should not be kept on the ground as it will get rooted. ravana felt uneasy and requested a young boy( lord visnu) to hold the linga in his hands and requested him not to keep it down.when ravna came back he got angry and tried to take the linga out. he could not.so he worshipped shiva and went back to lanka. in the process of pulling the linga out , he pressed his thump on the head of the linga ,still the impression is there. all the rishi's devathas came there to worship shiva . when they saw lord himself there they established it as jyotirlinga.
SHRI NAGESWAR JYOTIRLINGA
this is situated in dwaraka. this place was a jungle once and there lived a demon called daruk .he lived under the ocean with his men he stole the goods from the ship that passed by and took the passengers as prisoners. one of the prisoner was a merchant called supriye who was a shiva devotee. when daruk was troubling the passengers, he was worshiping god. so daruk ordered to kill him. scared supriye requested god to help him. immediately a hole was formed and lord shiva came and killed daruk and his men. on the request of supriye lord shiva stayed there as nageswar jyotirlinga.
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