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Hindu religious traditions
Somnath is a Shiva temple on Gujarat’s western coast, in the sacred region of Prabhasa. It is honoured as the first of the twelve Jyotirlingas. Its name, meaning lord of Soma, connects Shiva with the moon deity, whose loss and recovery of radiance form the shrine’s best-known sacred account.
Original artistic interpretation · SomnathTHE LIVING ARCHIVE
The shrine has both a Puranic religious identity and a history of rebuilding. The Somnath Trust preserves traditions of an early golden temple associated with the moon, a silver one associated with Ravana and a sandalwood one associated with Krishna. These belong to sacred memory and should be distinguished from the dated history of the present temple.
A major Shiva Jyotirlinga shrine in the
AT A GLANCE
THE STORY
ROLE & ESSENCE
The shrine joins two forms of renewal: the moon’s repeating recovery in the religious narrative and the physical rebuilding remembered by the temple community. Its continuing worship belongs to Prabhasa’s larger sacred landscape, while Somnath specifically centres on Shiva as the deity who grants the moon relief.
Somnath
Prabhas Patan, Gujarat, India
Confirmed physical location
Prabhas Patan, Gujarat, India
See the linked narrative records.
This overview does not identify a site-specific excavation report. A living physical place does not prove every event traditionally associated with it.
Ancient regions, literary geography and modern pilgrimage identifications are distinguished.
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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TRADITION & MEANING
Soma and Chandra are names of the moon deity. Somnath and Someshvara identify Shiva in relation to that deity; they do not make the temple a shrine dedicated primarily to the moon.
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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Somnath stands within the Prabhasa pilgrimage landscape.
Shiva is worshipped as Somnath or Someshvara.
The moon seeks relief from Daksha’s curse at Prabhasa.
ENHANCEMENT
SUVARNAVEDA GAME DESIGN
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+15 AUR · +5 HP
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The chapter names this shrine as a Jyotirlinga of Shiva.
The moon worships Shiva at Somnath.
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VISUAL ARCHIVE