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When
they were passing through restless nights and graceless days, some
among them suggested to approach a pious brahmin living in Avanti
itself for help; for, he was noted for his spiritual life together
with practicing yoga. A quite going man as he was, he neither craved
for publicity, nor longed for worldly fame. He was a hermit,
although living
amidst mahanagara. Meeting him, they appraised him of the asura's
wicked acts and the fact of premature deaths mounting higher day
after day. Moved by the accounts, he decided to put his yoga Vidya
to public benefit. Dispersing the people, he offered pujas in a
pattern of his own to Lord Maheswar and prayed for His instant
intervention. His yogic powers were of superior kind that Lord
Maheswar coming out of a chasm of the earth near the yagna kund
caught hold of the demon at once and destroyed him. The whole nagara
breathed peace and then they solicited the Lord along with the
brahmin to abide in the city for their regular worship, which was
granted. And since then Maheswar in the role of destroyer under the
new name of Mahakala is abiding in the form of Jyotirlinga, blessing
the people and relieving them from all kinds of distresses.
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