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Jageshwar is a Hindu pilgrimage town in Almora district, Uttarakhand, believed to carry the Nagesh Jyotirlinga dedicated to Shiva, located 36 km northeast of Almora, in Kumaun region. The temple city comprises a cluster of 124 large and small stone temples, dating 9th to 13th century AD, with many preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which include Dandeshwar Temple, Chandi-ka-Temple, Jageshwar Temple, Kuber Temple, Mritunjaya Temple, Nanda Devi or Nau Durga, Nava-grah temple, a Pyramidal shrine, and Surya Temple, amongst which the oldest shrine is the Mrityunjaya Temple and the biggest shrine is the Dandeshwar Temple. Once the centre of Lakulish Shaivism, Jageshwar is located at an altitude of 1870 mts, in the Jataganga river valley near a Deodar forest (''Cedrus deodara'') starting from Artola village on Almora–Pithoragarh highway, where two streams Nandini and Surabhi flow down the hills in the narrow valley and meet near the sacred spot. The Jageshwar Monsoon Festival, held between 15 July to 15 August takes place at Jageshwar during the Hindu calendar month of ''Shravan'' and the annual Maha Shivratri Mela (Shivratri festival), which takes place during spring has an important place in the calendar of the entire Kumaon region. ==Nagesh Jyotirlinga== Most Hindus believe that Jageshwar is the place of ''Nagesh'', 8th among the ''Dwadasa Jyotirlingas'' (the twelve resplendent lingas of Shiva established by Vishnu), which is stated to exist in the forest of Deodar or ''daruka'' (Sanskrit: दारूक वन, transliteration: ''daruka van'') - The twelve Jyotirlingas are: * Somnath at Prabhas Patan, Saurashtra, Gujarat. * Sri Mallikarjun in Srisailam, near Kurnool,Andhra Pradesh, on the banks of river Krishna.Adi Sankaracharya composed his Sivanandalahiri here. * Mahakaleshwar in Ujjain(Avanti), Madhya Pradesh. * Omkareshwar in Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh, this jyotirlinga is situated on an island in the course of the river Narmada. * Vaidyanath temple at Deoghar,Santal Parganas area of Jharkhand. * Bhimashankar in Dakini and located in the Sahyadri hills,near Pune, Maharashtra. * Ramalingeswar in Setubandanam, Tamil Nadu.This is situated on vast temple island of Rameswaram.It is the southernmost of the 12 Jyotirlinga shrines of India. * Nagesh in Jageshwar. * Vishwanath in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. * Tryambakeswar Jyotirlinga shrine is intimately linked with the origin of the river Godavari near Nasik, Maharashtra. * Kedareswar in Kedarnath in Himalayas,Uttarakhand. * Ghrishneshwar in Devasrovar,near Ellora,Aurangabad, Maharashtra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jageshwar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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