Place · Shiva temple · India
Mamleshwar
/maːmleːʃʋəɾ/
Also known as Mamaleshwar, Amareshwar, Amaleshwar, Mamleshwar Mahadev
The Shiva temple on the mainland bank of the Narmada facing Omkareshwar's island. Many traditions treat the two shrines as a single jyotirlinga, so pilgrims cross the river to visit both, and a darshan is often considered incomplete without the pair.
- Periods
- Regional Flourishing, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Qualified / contested
- Location
- 22.240, 76.150
Worth knowing
Also called Amareshwar. The temple carries a substantial body of stone inscriptions, including Paramara-period records, making it useful to historians of Malwa as well as to pilgrims. Its walls and platform show several phases of building and repair rather than a single campaign.
Whether the jyotirlinga is Omkareshwar, Mamleshwar, or the two together is genuinely disputed within the tradition, and different texts and local authorities answer differently. The name Amareshwar is also applied to other shrines, so it is not a reliable identifier on its own.
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyOmkāreshvara
Mamleshwar on the mainland bank facing the island is treated by many traditions as part of the same jyotirlinga as Omkareshwar, and the pair is visited together. The island parikrama and the crossing between the two shrines make a small circuit nested inside the great Narmada parikrama that passes through here — pilgrims walking the full river stop for the island as one stage of a three-year walk.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Omkareshwar Temple”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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