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DRAKSHARAMAM
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The
Tarakasura Episode
According to legends, this kshetra came to be known as Draksharamam
on the death of Tarakasura at the hands of Subrahmanya, the
redoubtable chief-Marshal of the celestial armies. The self same
story detailed above gets repeated -- that formidable demon Taraka
due to wearing on his person a big size Amrita linga, as a mark of
his achanchala bhakti -- unshakable devotion to Lord Siva, being a
Siva bhakta of high order: When he was brought down by Subrahmanya's
potent lance, hurled against his chest bearing the golden casket
encasing the Sivalinga, it
at once broke into five pieces and fell at five different and
distant places, and they became auspicious kshetras. And they were
called the Pancharamas.
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