Today is Maha Shivaratri. So I am writing about Shiva temple.
We all know about BhimaShankar jyotirling .
It is among the 12 jyotirling temples of India .
Bhima of Bhima Shamkar is not the Bhima of Mahabharata !!!!
This Bhima is of Ramayana times .
We all know about Kumbhakarna , brother of Ravana .
Kumbhakarna had a wife by the name Karkadi.
Bhima is the son of Kumbhakarna and Karkadi.
But when Karkadi came to know about death of Kumbhakarna from gods , she hid her son from everyone.
When Bhima grew up , he came to know about death of his father from gods , he developed hatredness against gods.
He performed austerities regarding God Brahma to please him.
God Brahma had to give him boons .
But after getting the boons he started troubling everyone such that he declared himself as God !!!!
He asked everyone to worship only him .
But there was a King who was the ardent follower of God Shiva .
Bhima came near him when he was worshipping God Shiva .
Enraged by this , Bhima asked the king to stop worshiping other God than him .
But king didn't listen and continued .
Angry Bhima tried to damage the shivling by his sword .
That time God Shiva himself stood infront of him and killed him for his evil works .
King prayed God Shiva to stay in the shivaling and to bless the devotees .
God Shiva agreed and from that time onwards, the place and also the shivaling were known as BhimaShankar .
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