Place · Hemadpanti Shiva temple · India

Nagnath, Hingoli

Also known as Aundh Nagnath, Hingoli, Nagnath, Nagnath (Aundha)

Function

Sacred site & pilgrimage

Confidence

Established / referenced

Location

19.464, 77.037

Connections (3)

• Alternative toSomnāth / Prabhāsa

  Aundha Nagnath in Hingoli district is Marathwada's claimant to the Nageshvara place among the twelve, against Nageshwar near Dwarka. The dispute matters structurally: accepting Aundha would take one of the two jyotirlingas off the Saurashtra coast and change the shape of the western circuit that Somnath anchors. Several of the twelve have rival claimants like this, and the list has stayed usable precisely because nobody has ever been able to settle them.

• Alternative toNāgesha / Nāgeshvara

  Aundha Nagnath in Hingoli contests the Saurashtra site's claim to be the true Nageshvara. Its Hemadpanti temple of the Yadava period is associated with Namdev of the Varkari tradition, who is said to have been turned away from the front door and to have had the temple turn round to face him — so the Marathi claim carries a bhakti story about caste as well as an architectural one, and the identification remains open.

• Scriptural inclusion inSikhism

  Sant Namdev, the 13th century Marathi Warkari poet, is closely associated with Aundha Nagnath, where tradition holds he was refused entry as a Shudra and the temple turned to face him instead. This foundational Warkari story ties the Maharashtra Nageshvara claim to the caste-inclusion narratives central to Marathi devotional history. Sant Namdev's hymns at Aundha Nagnath are preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib, linking the Maharashtra Nageshvara site to Sikh scriptural geography.

On these journeys

• Jyotirlingas

Sources

Wikipedia, “Hingoli”. The Śiva Purāṇa, Koṭirudra Saṃhitā; and the temple establishments’ own published records.

• Wikipedia — Hingoli