Gauri Somnath Mandir

Temple, containing a gigantic six feet tall shiv linga, around which as the legend goes two grow-up persons embracing it cannot reach their hands unless they are an internal uncle and nephew (Mama-Bhanja). The lingam though very old of a smooth black stone with shining polish. There is a sitting Nandi(Scared bull) of similar stone outside. As per legend if anyone looked into it he would see the figure of his next birth

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Emperor Aurangzeb, the devout son of Islam and arch iconoclast, while marching to the south, on his way nearby Omkareshwar he heard of the rich temples and monuments therein, so he could not resist the temptation to come to a spot full of spills. He came and did spoil by mutilatiting the figures as apparent even now. Curious to test the legend, he stood before the Lingam, and on gazing, he saw a pig in it. In his rage, he hurt the Lingam, and since then it has assumed it.

The properties have been lost present jet black hue and the properties have been lost col. James Tod, in his ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan’ written about two centuries back, makes mention of Aurangzeb’s visit to Omkareshewar but with a different version, saying the emperor broke the idol out of which blood had gushed out.

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