The Great Night — Mahāśivarātri, and the Hour a Stone Was Given Its Breath
On 1 March 2022 a black stone at Middle Pocket was bathed at half past midnight and made a temple. The night it happened on is four thousand years old…
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Liṅgāṣṭakam — Eight Verses to Sadāśiva
The Liṅgāṣṭakam in eight stanzas — each ending with the same declaration of prostration before Sadāśiva's liṅga. With full transliteratio…
Three Sacred Temples in Tamil Nadu — A Yātrā Report
A first-person pilgrimage report from Tamil Nadu — three extraordinary temples discovered at the end of a five-week yātrā: Thirupullani (Divya Des…
Tripurasura and Śiva — The Three Cities and the Single Arrow
The Purāṇic narrative of the three demon brothers who obtained three indestructible cities aligned once every thousand years, and Śiva's single ar…
Shri KailashPati Mandir — The Foundation Stone, and the River That Made It
June 2021: a fire that may not go out, a liṅga no hand carved, and a copper crown that had waited four years for a roof. The foundation of a temple …