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SRISAILAM
- MALLIKARJUNA JYOTIRLINGA |
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it is here the devout princess Chandravathi worshipped Lord Siva
with jasmine flowers that gave the august name of Mallikarjuna -
white jasmine to the presiding deity of the temple; it is with a
mere darsan of the sikhara of this shrine, one is released from the
cycle of births and deaths; "Srisaila Sikhra Drushtvat
Punarjanma Nalabhyate"; it is this region visited by Lord
Siva once on hunting expedition with a chosen few of His
Pramadaganas, when His chance acquaintance with a local Chenchu
damsel consummated in wedlock, and so endearingly called Chenchu
Mallayya by Chenchu tribe.
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