Gouri Somnath Mandir: Omkareshwar

Temple, containing a gigantic six feet tall shivlinga, around which as the legend goes two grow up persons embracing it cannot reach their hands unless they are a internal uncle and nephew (Mama-Bhanja). The lingam though very old of a smooth black stone with shinning polish. There is a sitting Nandi(Scared bull) of similar stone outside. As per legend if anyone looked into it he would see the figure of his next birth.

More about Gouri Somnath Mandir Emperor Aurangzaeb, the devout son of Islam and arch iconoclast, while marching to the south, on his way near by Omkareshwar he heard of the rich temples and monuments therein, so he could not resist temptation to come to a spot full od spils. He came and did spoil by multitating the figures as apparent even now. Curious to test the legend, he stood before the Lingam, and on gazing he saw a pig in it . In his rage he hurt the Lingam, and sicethe it has assumed its The properties have been lost present jet black hue and the properties have been lost col. James Tod, in his ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan’ written about two centuries back, makes mention of Aurangzeb’s visit to Omkareshewar but with a different version, saying the emperor broke the idol out of which blood had gushed out.