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SAHYADRI
- BHIMSANKAR JYOTIRLINGA |
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The
Temple
The temple of Bhimashankar is built atop the Sahyadri hill near a
village of the same name. The old temple is of modest dimensions,
not bigger than forty five by twenty feet and has a portico,
antarala and garbhagriha. The Sivalinga installed with yoni in the
garbha griha is at a much lower level than the ground outside. So
one has to
descend a few steps to reach it. It was discovered by a wood-cutter,
when started cutting a tree with his axe one day. At the first
stroke itself there gushed out blood from the tree. Quite
bewildered, he brought his cow and milked it against the bleeding
tree; for, he once heard such story when the cow's milk
stopped the bleeding. Miraculously the bleeding was stopped,
but to his great astonishment, he found on the next day a Sivalinga
on the spot, where the tree stood. As he was a god - 'Minded man, he
began offering worship. He built a small temple around the Swayambhu
Sivalinga and with the passage of time it attracted devotees and
developed in all dimensions. Ritualistic prayers and festivals were.
introduced later. This incident happened around 1350 A.D. Later in
the eighteenth century, it developed into dasadisas, with the advent
.of one great bhakta by name Chimanji, a resident of Poona.
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