Velur

Village in the Aurangabad district of the
state of Maharashtra, a few miles from
the cave temples at Ellora. Velur is
famous as the site for the temple to the
god Shiva in his form as Ghrneshvar,
the “Lord of Compassion.” Shiva is present at this temple in the form of a linga,
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the pillar-shaped image that is his
symbolic form, and the Ghrneshvar
linga is one of the twelve jyotirlingas, a
network of sites deemed especially
sacred to Shiva, and at which Shiva is
uniquely present.