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The Jyotirlingas, in full

Each shrine with its place, the Tevaram hymns sung there and a link to the map. For their story, read The Jyotirlingas and the Himalayan shrines.

Map points are approximate references, not surveyed sanctums. A shrine without hymn numbers has no hymn of its own in the Tevaram; that does not mean Tamil literature never mentions it.

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The twelve Jyotirlingas பன்னிரு சோதிலிங்கங்கள்

In the order of the Siva Purana's list. Where other places claim the same Jyotirlinga, they are listed under it; the first place is where it is most widely worshipped, not a ruling between them.

Somnath
சோமநாதம்
Prabhas Patan, near Veraval, Gujarat
On the map
Mallikarjuna (Srisailam)
மல்லிகார்ச்சுனர் (திருப்பருப்பதம்)
Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
Tevaram: 1.118, 4.58, 7.79
On the map
Mahakaleshwar
மகாகாளேசுவரம்
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
On the map
Omkareshwar
ஓங்காரேசுவரம்
Mandhata island, Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh
On the map
Kedarnath
கேதாரம்
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
Tevaram: 2.114, 7.78
On the map
Bhimashankar
பீமசங்கரம்
Bhimashankar, Pune district, Maharashtra
On the map
Also claimed at 3 other places
- Bhimeswar Dham பாமோகி பீமேசுவரம், Dakini Hill, Pamohi near Guwahati, Assam. Dakini Hill and the Siva Purana's Kamarupa king support the local identification. On the map
- Moteshwar Mahadev (Bheem Shankar) காசிப்பூர் பீமசங்கரம், Ujjanak, Kashipur, Uttarakhand. Local Bheem Shankar worship and a regional Dakini identification; local accounts also connect the shrine with Bhima of the Pandavas. On the map
- Bhimashankar, Bhimpur பீம்பூர் பீமசங்கரம், Bhimpur, Rayagada district, Odisha. Reported regional reading of Dakini as the Mahendragiri–Godavari tract. On the map
Kashi Vishwanath
காசி விசுவநாதர்
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
On the map
Trimbakeshwar
திரியம்பகேசுவரம்
Trimbak, Nashik district, Maharashtra
On the map
Vaidyanath (Baidyanath Dham)
வைத்தியநாதம்
Deoghar, Jharkhand
On the map
Also claimed at 2 other places
- Parli Vaijnath பரளி வைத்தியநாதம், Parli Vaijnath, Beed district, Maharashtra. Paralyam / Paralikabhidhane is read as Parli; the local Ravana-and-linga account also supports the claim. On the map
- Baijnath பைச்சுநாத் வைத்தியநாதம், Baijnath, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh. Regional Vaidyanatha worship and the account of Ravana's linga becoming fixed at Kiragrama. On the map
Nageshwar
நாகேசுவரம்
Near Dwarka, Gujarat
On the map
Also claimed at 2 other places
- Aundha Nagnath ஔந்தா நாகநாதர், Aundha Nagnath, Hingoli district, Maharashtra. Regional identification of Nagnath with Darukavana; geographical readings of the enumeration and proposed Amardaka links. On the map
- Jageshwar சாகேசுவரம், Jageshwar temple group, Almora district, Uttarakhand. Darukavana is read as a deodar forest, matching the temple group's setting. On the map
Ramanathaswamy (Rameswaram)
திருஇராமேச்சுரம்
Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
Tevaram: 3.10, 3.101, 4.61
On the map
Grishneshwar
கிருட்டிணேசுவரம்
Verul, near Ellora, Maharashtra
On the map

The Himalayan shrines இமயத் தலங்கள்

Grouped here for the pilgrim; they are not further Jyotirlingas.

Kailash
கயிலாயம்
Mount Kailash, Ngari, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Tevaram: 1.68, 3.68, 3.109, 4.47, 6.55, 6.56, 6.57, 7.100
On the map
Amarnath
அமர்நாத்
Amarnath cave, Kashmir Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir
On the map
Pashupatinath
பசுபதிநாதர்
Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
On the map