Avimukteshwar/Abhimukteshwar Mahadev Temple(78/84) Kartik Chowk, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
This temple is situated in the enclosure of Vyasji between Atal-Patal Bhairav and Kutumbheshwar Mahadev temples in Singhpuri, the old dense area of the city. Its east-facing entrance, which is four and a half feet high and has old stone pillars, has an iron gate. After going down four stairs, there is a brass water vessel about two and a half feet wide which is square in shape, on which two conch shells, sun-moon, swastika symbol and um figure are engraved.
In the middle, there is a one feet high linga of black stone covered with a snake shape. At the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum, there are ancient idols of Ganesha facing us, Parvati facing us and Shiva-Parvati on the right. The floor and fourth part of the wall are inlaid with marble.
King Chitrasen ruled in Shakal Nagar with his beautiful and youthful queen Chandraprabha and his beautiful young daughter. The girl had memory of her previous birth. The king started thinking about her marriage, but the daughter narrated the story of her previous birth. She was the well-to-do wife of a Brahmin Haraswami but he did not want her, nor any other woman. He was virtuous.
To subjugate my husband, I made him drink milk mixed with mantraput powder on the request of the abandoned women, in the same way he started trembling and said, I am your slave, protect me. Since then he came under control but when the time came, I died and after suffering hellish torture, I had to be born in the house of that Chandal.
Thereafter she reached Mahakalvan and after having darshan of a particular Linga, she boarded a divine plane and went to Indrapur. Then I am born in Shakalpur as your daughter. Again she came to Mahakal forest along with her father for darshan of the linga. After darshan of the linga, she got absorbed in the same linga. The king also got a son. The king named the Linga as Avimukteshwar which became famous among the people by this name.
The wise man who sees Avimukteshwar, his salvation is certain. The result of all types of Yagya and celibacy rituals is equivalent to this Linga Darshan. Even a sinful person, by seeing this Linga, attains a state free from birth and death.
