Somnath
Prabhas Patan, Gujarat · dedicated to ShivaFirst of the twelve jyotirlingas, on the western coast; plundered and rebuilt many times, last reconsecrated in 1951.
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- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
Somnath stands at Prabhasa, on the coast of Gujarat, in the present Gir Somnath district ( Kotirudra Samhita 14).
- Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History
In the early months of 1026, after a long march across the desert, the cavalry of Mahmud of Ghazni reached the Shaiva temple of Somnath on the coast of Gujarat and sacked it.