Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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by the early Mohammedan conquerors'. Most, if not all of them, also are named in works, of which the
OF THE HINDUS.
The twelve Lingas are particularised in the Kedára Kalpa, of the Nandi Upapurána [See also Sirapurána e. 44-61 ap. Aufrecht, Cat. Codd. MSS. Sanskr. Bibl. Bodl., I, p. 64; ib. p. 81, and Weber, Catal. p. 347, No. 1242.], where SIVA is made to say: "I am omnipresent, but I am especially in twelve forms and places." These he enumerates, and they are as follow:
1. Somanátha, in Saurashtra, i. e. Surat, in its most extensive sense, including part of Guzerat, where, indeed, Pattana Somnath, or the city of Somnath, is still situated.
2. Mallikarjuna, or Sri Saila, described by Colonel MACKENZIE, the late Surveyor General. Asiatic Researches, Vol. 5th.
3. Mahákála, in Ujjain. This deity of stone was carried to Dehli, and broken there upon the capture of Ujjain by ALTUMSH. A. D. 1231,-Dow. According to the Tabakáti Akbari the shrine was then three hundred years old.
4. Omkára is said to have been in Ujjain, but it is probably the shrine of MAHÁDEO at Omkára Mandatta [Mándháttá] on the Narmadá.
5. Amaresvara is also placed in Ujjain: an ancient temple of MAHÁDEO on a hill near Ujjain is noticed by Dr. HUNTER, Asiatic Researches, Vol. 6th, but he does not give the name or form.
6. Vaidyanath, at Deogarh in Bengal; the temple is still in being, and is a celebrated place of pilgrimage.
7. Rámesa, at Setubandha, the island of Ramisseram, between Ceylon and the Continent; this Lingam is fabled to have been set up by RAMA. The temple is still in tolerable repair, and is one of the most magnificent in India. The gateway is one hundred feet high. It has been repeatedly described, and is delineated in DANIEL'S Superb Plates of Indian Antiquities, from which it has been copied into LANGLES' Monuments de L'Hindoostan.
S. Bhimasankara, in Dakini, which is in all probability the same with Bhimesvara, a Linga worshipped at Dracharam in the Rajamahendri district, and there venerated as one of the principal twelve.