Hindu / Shaiva - Location: Somnath, Gir Somnath, Gujarat (20.888°N, 70.4017°E) Somnātha — 1st of the 12 Jyotir-liṅgas — on the Arabian sea coast of Gujarat. The shrine has been destroyed and rebuilt 17 times — most notoriously by Mahmud of Ghazni (1025 CE, who took 20 camels of gold). The current structure is the 7th reconstruction, built 1951 after Indian independence under the direction of Sardar Patel. At Somnath the triveni-saṅgam of Kapila, Hiraṇyā, and Sarasvatī rivers meet
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