Thursday, July 5, 2007

Incarnation of Lord Hatkeshwar

A tale goes that when Sati gave away herself in the havan kund in the Yagnya organized by King Daksh’, Lord Shiva suffered in her viyoga and Virah and started roaming on Pruthvi in a stupor like state of mind. Under the condition he lost his Mrugchhala (Deerskin). He started begging near a settlement of Rushi Munis. The rushi women got infatuated with him looking to his naked condition. This enraged the rushis who cursed him that his shiv linga would shred and get buried in depths of the Earth(Patala). This lead to a great upheaval in the three Worlds (trilok). Brahma, Vishnu, Indra and other devas preyed to Lord Shiva who assured them that if Devas and Humans worshipped his Shivlinga, the destruction would stop. Lord Brahma said that he himself would worship the shivlinga. He created a shivlinga made up of gold, i.e Hatak. This shivlinga was called Hatkeshwar. Chitrasarma, a brahmin of Chamatkarpur and belonging to the Vatsa Gotra, worshipped Lord Shiv and, with his blessings, introduced the worship of this “Hataka Linga of Patala” in Chamatkarpur. Other Brahmins build 68 more temples and thus Nagars started worshipping Hatakeshwar.

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