History of seventh Jyotirlinga kashi Vishwanath Mahadev

  •  the seventh Jyotirling, which is as popular as the ones situated in Kedarnath and Somnath. Like Somnath and Mahakaleshwar Dham, this temple has also faced incessant invasions by foreign invaders, but has stood defiantly as the symbol of the resistance shown by Sanatan Dharma. 
  • We’re talking about the world famous Kashi Vishwanath Mandir situated in Varanasi, not very far from the Manikarnika Ghat near river Ganga. This temple holds a very important place in the Sanatan Dharma.
  •  This Jyotirlingam is situated on the northern banks of river Ganga, at the confluence of the Varuna and Asi rivers, in the city of Kashi. Kashi Nagri is an important historical and spiritual place situated in Varanasi itself. 

  • This is considered as one of the oldest cities of the world, where the Vishwanath Jyotirlingam lives in two parts. In the right side lives Shakti in the form of Maa Bhagwati, and on the other side, lives Bhagwan Shiva in the Vama form.
  •  This is why Kashi is also known as Mokshadayini, i.e. the city which offers salvation. All the four dwars have a different place in the The four dwars have an important place in the world of Tantra. It is believed since centuries that whoever takes his last breath in Kashi, he attains Moksha.
  •  Saints and seekers like Adi Shankarcharya, Swami Eknath, Goswami Tulsidas, Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Dayanand Saraswati etc. have also come to seek blessings from this temple. 
  •  It was here that Swami Eknath created the famous book of the Varkari community, It is said that when Vishnu cut the corpse of Sati in order to pull out his beloved Shiva from his Vairagya, the earring, as well as the nose of Sati fell in Kashi.
  •  Where the earring fell, stands now the famous Manikarnika Ghat, and where the nose fell, stands now the Vishalakshi Shaktipeeth. Kashi Vishwanath Mandir was formally established around fourth – fifth century AD.
  •  Like Somnath Mandir, this temple also had to face incessant invasions, and the temple was first damaged in 1194 by Qutubuddin Aibak. The then general of Sultan Muizuddin Muhammad Ghori, he had defeated and killed Jaichand Rathore, the then ruler of Kannauj in the Battle of Chandawar and went on a rampage, The temple was reconstructed by a Gujarati merchant in the reign of Sultan Iltutmish. 
  • However, it was destroyed again by Hussain Shah Sharqi or Sikander Lodhi. However, by 1669, Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb once again destroyed the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir and constructed the Gyanvapi Mosque in its place. . The remnants of the old temple are still present in the compound of the mosque.
  •  It is said, that in the place where the mosque was constructed, there is a well that exists in the compound, where the devotees had hidden the Jyotirlingam, in order to prevent Aurangzeb from desecrating it. 
  • Following the death of Aurangzeb, Malhar Rao Holkar and the ruler of Jaipur tried to reconstruct the temple, but weren’t successful. It was in 1780 that the current Kashi Vishwanath Temple was reconstructed by the warrior queen Ahilya Bai Holkar. 
  • In order to decorate the two Shikhars of the temple, Maharaja Ranjit Singh had sent almost a ton of gold to the temple in 1839. So this was the tale of the Jyotirlingam at Kashi Vishwanath. 

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