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Shaivacintamani (analytical study)

by Swati Sucharita Pattanaik | 2022 | 84,311 words

This page relates ‘Description of Nageshvara Linga� of the English study on the Shaivacintamani—an unstudied text on Shaiva or Shiva worship by Lakshmidhara Mishra, written in the late 17th century and edited for the first time in 1994 by Shri Dukhisyam Pattanaik from the Orissa State Museum. The present research aims to offer a comprehensive study of the Saivacintamani, filling the knowledge gap by being the first to provide in-depth analysis and commentary.

Part 4.8 - Description of 岵ś Liṅga

岵ś is one of the temples mentioned in the Ś ʳܰṇa and is one of the twelve dzپṅg. The Ś ʳܰṇa says 岵ś ṅg temple was located in between Arabian sea and Gomati of ٲܰ첹Բ�. Once the living place of lord Krishnaٱ� was also located in this ٲܰ첹ṇa [ܰ첹Բ?]. A narrative in the Ś ʳܰṇa about the 岵ś Jyotirṅg tells of a demon named daruk, who attacked a Ś devotee named Supriya and imprisoned him along with many others in his city of ٲܰ첹ṇa, a city under the sea inhabited by sea snakes and demons. At the Urgent exhortations of Supriya, the prisoners started to chant the holy mantra of Ś and immediately thereafter Lord Ś appeared and the demon was vanquished, later residing there in the form of a Jyotirṅg. The demon had a wife, a demoness named Daruka who Worshipped ī. As a result of her penance and devotion, ī enabled her to master the forest where she performed her devotions, and renamed the forestDarukavana� in her honour. Wherever Daruka went the forest followed her. In order to save the demons of Darukavana from the punishment of the gods, Daruk summoned up the power ī had given her. She then moved the entire forest into sea where they continued their campaign against the hermits, kidnapping people and keeping them confined in their new lair under the sea, which was how that great Ś devotee Supriya, had wound up there.

According to Epics

Once there lived a ṣy named “Darukuder� and his wife was “Daruka�. Both wife and husband fortured all the sages and saints by destroying their huts and “Yashasalas� (where satrificining works to be done). They also occupied hearly 1000 yards at the south coastal area. Then all the suffering people went to Aurva 󲹰ṣi� and prayed him for soluation of their problems. Then that Maharṣi sinned that ṣys as if they again tree tourture any people on earth then will meet the death at once�. On knowing about this sin both that wild husband and wife shifted their place to the mid-area of sea. As the Aurva Maharṣi sinned that they will die if the touture and kill the people on earth. So they are killing people on the sea who were on travel. They are living happily there.

Once at the Western side of the sea, a group of ships are on voyage. On seeing them, that Darukuda attacked that group and all of them sentenced to jail. Among them “Supriyudu� was a great devotee of lord Ś. Even though he was in jail, he doesn”t stop worshipping lord Ś and made all the people in jail in devotees. He used to wear �ṣm� (ash) and ܻṣy� every time and used to chant the mantranama� Śivāya�.

But the ṣy people doesn”t accepted this and worned Supriyudu to stagnet the worship of lord Ś which then doesn”t like. Thus lord Ś accepted his request and appeared in front of him as a Jyothirṅg with temple. And killed all the ṣy people with his highest weaponśܱ貹ٲ�. Then that place became the “place for devotees of lord Ś�. And that place was called �Darukavanam� and that Jyothirṅg a was named as �岵ٳ�.

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