Baidyanath Dham, Serene Shrine Dedicated to Lord Shiva

Baidyanath Dham is a well known pilgrimage place for Hindus. It is also famous as dwelling place of goddess and Gods and even called as DEOGHAR which is located on Bihar’s eastern side, this place is in close proximity to the border of Bengal. To take the darshan of the Kamana Linga of Lord Shiva devotees throng in here in huge numbers. As you are aware of the fact that in the month of Shravan on Monday people visit temple of Lord Shiva so on Shravan Monday’s you can see the counting of devotees in lakhs.

There are also quiet a few devotees that come walking for 100 kilometres on foot, they do this for pouring the holy water of Ganga collected from the Sultanganj to pour on the Kamana Linga. To reach here you can get availed with the regular bus services as of Patna and Ranchi. If you are traveling from Bhagalpur then you are just 80 kilometres away from this pilgrimage site.

There is also a legend that gods were not pleased with the idea of having the Lingam being established in the kingdom of the enemies, as they thought that they could be powerless against Ravana. So they planned a strategy to outwit Ravana. So Lord Varuna the God of water entered Ravana’s body and urged him to mitigate, then in the meanwhile an old Brahmin who was Lord Vishnu befriended Ravana by asking him to hold the Lingam for a while.

The temple sanctified in Baidyanath Dham to Lord Shiva is towered at the height of 72 feet from the ground level which is dowered by a tower

of pyramid shape. You can have a look at the place where Lord Shiva’s image and Lingam are bathed with water and milk in the temple’s northern side that is the verandah. The lingam is in fact a humongous basalt wedge; generally it appears like a cylindrical structure with diameter of 5 inch.  The holy place is gifted with the charisma of large bells that devotees rung to show their presence and respect towards the Lord.

Traditionally the shrine is behind the times to 1596 when the Lingam was discovered by a seeker named Baiju. From that time this place came to be known as Baidyanath and people do refer it by the name Kamma Lingam – the wish fulfilling lingam.