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Bhadreswara
Temple
It
was in the fifth century AD many Saivate shrines were built in
Champs during the reign of Bhadravarma and he named the linga Sambhu
Bhadreswara. This noble tradition was followed and carried on with
great zeal by his successors, like Prakasavarma and Indravarma II.
Their rich endowments took many shapes, like composition of poems in
praise of that God of gods, in addition to beautifying the temples
with sculptural master pieces. With the passage of time, their
fervor reached new heights and many mythologies gained currency,
stating that the Shambhu Bhadreswaralinga was given to the sage
Brighu by Siva Himself, and who in turn gave it Uroja, a devout king
of unprecedented spiritual eminence and indomitable valour. Siva was
deemed the only god to be adored and so became the guardian deity of
the country. In the eleventh century and later too Siva occupied the
position of National God. Uroja, the ardent Siva bhakta renamed the
old Sambhu Bhadreswara as Srisana Bhadreswara. His successors
honoured the tradition and they went a step further calling
themselves as the incarnation of Uroja and spent lavishly to
glorifying the temple in many ways.
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