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.
- Somnath — Prabhas Patan, Gujarat
- Mallikarjuna — Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
- Mahakaleshwar — Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
- Omkareshwar — Madhya Pradesh
- Kedarnath — Uttarakhand
- Bhimashankar — Maharashtra
- Kashi Vishwanath — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
- Trimbakeshwar — Nashik, Maharashtra
- Vaidyanath — Deoghar, Jharkhand (Parli Vaijnath, Maharashtra, also carries the tradition)
- Nageshwar — near Dwarka, Gujarat (Aundha Nagnath, Maharashtra, also carries the tradition)
- Ramanathaswamy — Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
- Grishneshwar — near Ellora, Maharashtra
Where two sites carry living claims, Indopedia documents both traditions with their sources.