Shiveshwar Mahadev (37/84) Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Shri Shiveshwar Mahadev is seated in a small temple on the floor below the temple between the Shri Ram temple and the stepwell in the approximately 1000 years old Shri Ram Janardan Temple complex located to the north of Vishnu Sagar Garden. There is an iron gate inside the east facing entrance made of black stone about 40 inches high.
The snake engraved on the brass Jaladhari covers a circular linga of about two and a half feet diameter, and a snake hood about 10 inches wide is capped on the Shivalinga, which is especially worth seeing. The grand linga is worth seeing. In the small sanctum sanctorum, idols of Ganesha and Parvati are installed in the front niche, ancient dark colored Nandi is seated on a 1 inch pedestal on the outer floor. The entire temple is a total of 7 feet high, unlike other 84 temples, there are no four walls of the temple, there is no peak part at all.
In the earlier Brahmakalpa, when King Ripunjaya was famous as the best protector of his subjects in Mahakalvan, even Mahadev did not feel like going anywhere without Ujjayini. At that time, on the orders of Shiva, a group of Shiva reached Mahakalvan disguised as beggars and started playing dundubhi and saying that I am a physician equipped with all the tricks.
I can give his wishes to everyone. That Gana stayed there for fourteen years and kept finding fault with the king, but he found the king to be extremely people-oriented. Bahula, a beloved wife of King Ripunjaya, out of love for her daughter, called the monk to the harem, but he refused to come without the king’s invitation. Then once the queen told the king that the reason behind her clan was childlessness.
On this both of them went to that monk. As soon as he saw the king, he became like a linga. The king was blessed with a son who was religious, famous and universal. Mahadev told Parvati that then out of curiosity I came to Mahakalvan and built my Puri here.
Shiveshwar is a son-giving Linga, by worshiping it one attains the status of Ganapatya. By listening to its story one gets freedom from sins.