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The twelve Jyotirlingas

The twelve shrines where, after the pillar of light between Brahma and Vishnu, Shiva's radiance is said to have settled: Somnath, Mallikarjuna (Srisailam), Mahakaleshwar (Ujjain), Omkareshwar, Vaidyanath (Deoghar), Bhimashankar, Rameswaram, Nageshwar, Vishwanath (Kashi), Trimbakeshwar, Kedarnath and Grishneshwar, out of sixty-four such places in tradition. The Shiva Purana's Shatarudra and Kotirudra Samhitas and the Dvadasha Jyotirlinga Stotram are the textual anchors.

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Sources: Jyotirlinga — Wikipedia; The Siva Purana (4 vols), tr. J. L. Shastri — via Wisdom Library; Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga (Dakinyam), Bhimpur — Wikipedia; Bhimeswar Dham — Wikipedia · see The twelve Jyotirlingas's web

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