Jyotirlingas

The Jyotirlingas are the twelve shrines where Shiva is venerated as jyoti — a pillar of light — enumerated in the Dvadasha Jyotirlinga Stotra: Saurāṣṭre Somanāthaṁ… The traditional sequence begins at Somnath on the Saurashtra shore.

1. Somnath — Prabhas Patan, Gujarat
2. Mallikarjuna — Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
3. Mahakaleshwar — Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
4. Omkareshwar — Madhya Pradesh
5. Kedarnath — Uttarakhand
6. Bhimashankar — Maharashtra
7. Kashi Vishwanath — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
8. Trimbakeshwar — Nashik, Maharashtra
9. Vaidyanath — Deoghar, Jharkhand (Parli Vaijnath, Maharashtra, also carries the tradition)
10. Nageshwar — near Dwarka, Gujarat (Aundha Nagnath, Maharashtra, also carries the tradition)
11. Ramanathaswamy — Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
12. Grishneshwar — near Ellora, Maharashtra

Where two sites carry living claims, Indopedia documents both traditions with their sources.