Naveen Joshi 'Ka Itt-Sh-Fyal' When the Chinese world traveler Huent Tsang landed at a port on the coast of Korinal and saw 80 monasteries of more than five thousand monks, he wrote 'Kaitt-Sh-Fyal' in Chinese. This 'Kaitt-Sh-Fyal' means West India Our Koteshwar port located on the shores of the Arabian Sea… In an article called 'Koteshwar', which was found among the old texts and books of Amavasya, which had just passed an hour before the holy month of worship of Devadhidev, Ramsinghji Rathore, a writer and researcher, wrote that when the Chinese traveler Huentsung India Koteshwar had a religious influence when he came. More than five thousand Shiva worshipers in 80 monasteries were absorbed in their sadhana in the form of monks. Koteshwar, the only Hindu port on the banks of the 'Korinal', on the west bank of the country and Kutch, close to Pakistan and directly opposite the port of Karachi, is of great strategic importance geographically. The story of this pilgrimage is associated with Dashanan Lankapati Ravana. Ravana performed penance in Kailash and the pleased Kailashpati begged for a boon, this Viprasivabhakta asked for the boon of 'Sava Shivan Bhajamynah' meaning 'I will always worship Shiva', so the more pleased Bholanath gave him a linga that had the reputation of his spiritual power, but this linga reached Lanka. The gods trembled with the fear that Ravana would become immortal if he left, and finally Brahmaji took the form of a cow and started beating him in a muddy deep pit. The other deities tied a rope and made an appearance of rescuing the cow. King Ravana felt compassion and to save the cow's life Mahadev, forgetting that Mahadev had ordered him not to keep the linga anywhere, kept the linga on the ground and pulled the rope with a powerful hand to save the life of the cow, but the play of the gods was successful and when Ravana went to take the linga, millions of shivlings appeared. When Ravana, who had forgotten which was the original gender, went to claim one linga, all the lingas disappeared. The linga on which Lanka Pati's hand was stuck in the ground, so Ravana Ajar could not become immortal. Later the gods replaced the humped linga with Koti Lingeshwar, our Koteshwar of today. This temple also has another history. A well-known story is recorded in the history of Kutch that the god queen Chandravati or Chandrakore took the support of Nilakantha Mahadev in Koteshwar if she married Lakha Dhurara. This has been written in detail in texts ranging from Dulerai Karani to 'Culture Vision of Kutch' and even today there is a saying in Kutch from that story or atit 'Lakhe Dharaan Lakhkh, Munke Mide Kakhkh'. (In Kutch, the pronunciations for both Lakha Fulani and Lakha Dhurara are different.) Just as there are many ups and downs in the story of Lakha Dhurara and God Rani Chandrakor, so do the stories of this Shivalaya. Koteshwar, associated with the great Shiva devotee Ravana, is connected to Sindh by sea and taking advantage of it, ancient historians believe that during (1295-1315) when Hindu temples were being destroyed in extreme fanaticism, i.e., during the reign of Alauddin Khilji in Delhi, the holy Shivling of Koteshwar was also nailed. are recorded in the texts. The temple of Devadhidev in the western corner of India was vandalized by heretics, but over time Raoshree Deshalji Mota of Kutch (1718-1741) renovated the Shivalaya of Koteshwardada and installed the Nandi of Mahadev Sanmukh brass and hoisted the flag of this Shivalaya like Somnath so that it could be seen far into the Arabian Sea. It is said that the then Maharani Mahakunvar also renovated the temple of Nilakantha Mahadev. Ramsinghji Rathore has noted in his book that Sundarji Sodagar Seth and Jetha Shivji, the prominent Brahmakshatriya donors and merchants of Kutch, also renovated this strategic Shivalaya. Lok Sabha-Rajya Sabha MPs from Kutch together planned to install a huge and magnificent statue of Swami Vivekananda at Koteshwar, which is the 'Vivekananda Rock' in the south, also organized the famous Ramayani Morari Bapu's Rama-Shiva Katha in the presence of Dada, but it was almost forgotten or forgotten. is It was the days of the Kandhar plane hijack when neighboring Pakistan shot down a Border Security Force helicopter behind the Koteshwar temple. After fighting the war of life, he returned alive and paid his 'rescue debt' by bowing before Koteshwar. Today again this place has been remembered by the Gujarat government, let's hope it will not be like 'Ramkatha'!
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Adhiakharu Kutch: In the western corner of Kutch Lankapati Ravana was worshiped and fanatics dug nails!
