Omkareshwar temple is the main attraction of the pilgrims. In fact the
town owes its very existence to this temple. As to who constructed the
temple and when , is all shrouded in mystry.The sanctum sanctorum
containing the Jyotirlinga seems to have been originally a small temple
of the old construction style, the dome being made of layers of stone
slabs and not of circular cut stones. As
this temple is too close to the precipitously deep bank of the Narmada
to the south, the great extension is of new construction style. This is
the reason why the sanctum sanctorum and the main deity are neither in
the front of the main door nor below the higher conspicuous Shikhar or
the tower of later construction.
Grand Sabha Mandap (meeting or prayer hall)
The temple has a grand Sabha Mandap (meeting or prayer hall) standing on about 60 huge brown stone pillar (14 feet high), elaborately carved with a curious frieze and fillet of satyrlike figures. Many of them have broad shoulders and meditating foreheads.The temple is 5 storeyed each having a different deity. There are three regular ‘Pujas’ in the temple. The morningone done by the temple trust , the middle one by the priest of Scindia state and the evening one by the priest of the Holkar state.The temple is always crowded with pilgrims, coming after a bath in the Narmada and with pots full of Narmada water, coconuts and articles of worship, many of them performing Abhishek or special worships through the priests.
Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga
During fair or ‘Parva’ times it is very difficult to control the crowds in the temple. On every Monday the gold plates three headed idol of Lord Omkar is taken in a palanquin with bands, drums , priests and devotees gather in procession, first they go to the river where worship is done and then through the streets of the town. In the month of holy shravan the processions call “Somvar Sawaris” are huge and grand, the crowds dancing uttering the Lord’s name “Om Shambhu Bholenath”, and throwing Gulal making the atmosphere red
Grand Sabha Mandap (meeting or prayer hall)
The temple has a grand Sabha Mandap (meeting or prayer hall) standing on about 60 huge brown stone pillar (14 feet high), elaborately carved with a curious frieze and fillet of satyrlike figures. Many of them have broad shoulders and meditating foreheads.The temple is 5 storeyed each having a different deity. There are three regular ‘Pujas’ in the temple. The morningone done by the temple trust , the middle one by the priest of Scindia state and the evening one by the priest of the Holkar state.The temple is always crowded with pilgrims, coming after a bath in the Narmada and with pots full of Narmada water, coconuts and articles of worship, many of them performing Abhishek or special worships through the priests.
Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga
During fair or ‘Parva’ times it is very difficult to control the crowds in the temple. On every Monday the gold plates three headed idol of Lord Omkar is taken in a palanquin with bands, drums , priests and devotees gather in procession, first they go to the river where worship is done and then through the streets of the town. In the month of holy shravan the processions call “Somvar Sawaris” are huge and grand, the crowds dancing uttering the Lord’s name “Om Shambhu Bholenath”, and throwing Gulal making the atmosphere red
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