Famous Temples in India

Religious Significance

It is said that, prior to the Mahabharat period, Lord Shiva wished to reappear on the Earth once again. Pandit Lodheram Awasthi was a learned Brahmin, simple, kind and good natured villager. One night Lord Shiva appeared in his dreams. Next day, Lodheram who was childless, while irrigating his field, saw a pit from where his water was getting drained into the Earth. He tried hard to plug it, but failed and returned home. In the night, again he saw the same statue in his dreams and heard whispers saying ‘The pit where water is getting drained is my place establish me there and i would get fame by your name.’ It is said that, next day when Lodheram was digging the said pit, his implement struck a hard substance and he saw the same statue in front of him, blood was oozing from the place where his implement had hit the statue, this mark can be seen even today. Lodheram was terrified by this sight, but he continued to digout the statue, but failed to get to the other end of the statue, so he left it as it is and built the temple at the same place. The Brahmin was then blessed with four sons, Mahadeva, Lodhaura, Gobarha and Rajnapur, villages named after them exist even today.