Pancharama Kshetras

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Pancharama Kshetras are five ancient Hindu temples of Lord Shiva situated in Andhra Pradesh. The Sivalingas at these temples are made from a single Sivalinga.

As per the legend, this Sivalinga was owned by the Rakshasa King Tarakasura. Nobody could win over him due to the power of this Sivalinga. Finally Lord Kumaraswamy breaks this Sivalinga into five pieces and kills Tarakasura. The five pieces fall at different places on earth.

These five pieces are installed as five different Sivalingas by Indra, Surya, Chandra, Vishnu and Kumaraswamy at the respective places. These places (or araamas) are Amararama, Draksharama, Somarama, Ksheerarama and Kumararama.