Shri Lumpeshwar Mahadev Mandir (41/84) Goyala Buzurg, Madhya Pradesh

On entering the sanctum sanctorum through the east-facing entrance with iron inner door, which is five and a half feet high inside the old stone frame, a 1 feet high Shivalinga is established in the middle of a brass water vessel about 3 feet wide, over which copper snakes are shadowing.

The damru is mounted on a 3 feet high brass trident. There are idols of Ganesha, Parvati and Kartik Swami in front and figures of 2 conch shells and sun and moon are decorated. There is 2 feet marble on the floor and walls, the remaining walls above are made of ancient black stone, giving evidence of antiquity.

While narrating the story of Lumpeshwar Linga to Goddess Parvati, Mahadev says – Once a king named Lumppadhip, on the advice of a Brahmin, went to Samag Muni’s ashram for war. The king forcibly abducted the sage’s Homadhenu cow and when he objected, killed the sage. When the sage’s son returned to the ashram, he first performed the last rites of his dead father and cursed Lumpak of becoming a leper.

When he became 00 due to the torture of leprosy, he was building his own funeral pyre when Devarshi Narad ji arrived there. On asking Narad for a solution, he sent him to Mahakalvan and asked him to worship a particular Linga so that he would attain enlightenment again. With the darshan of that Linga, Lumpak was freed from leprosy, since then this Linga became famous by the name Lumpeshwar.

Even a person who commits great sins becomes like a god after seeing it. A cow killer, a matriarch, an adulterer, a rapist, a fratricide, one becomes free from the sins born out of wickedness just by seeing him once.