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Nandikeshwari (Sainthia)

Sati's necklace (in another account) fell here, in Birbhum district.

Narayani (Suchindram)

Nataraja (Ether)

Represents Akasha — ether. Famed for the Nataraja form of dancing Shiva.

Omkareshwar

Set on Mandhata island, shaped like the Om symbol.

Padmanabhaswamy

Famous for its vault treasures.

Palani Murugan Temple

Dhandayuthapani Swamy on the hill — Murugan as a renunciate, holding only a staff.

Panchsagar

Pazhamudircholai Murugan Temple

The forest grove of Valli, set in the Alagar hills north of Madurai.

Puruhutika (Pithapuram)

Rameshwaram

On Pamban Island; longest temple corridor in India; one of Char Dham.

Ratnavali

Rudranath

The face, worshipped as Nilkanth Mahadev in a natural rock shrine.

Saligramam Sri Murari

Saptashrungi

Sati's chin (right arm in some accounts) fell here, on the seven-peaked hill near Nashik.

Saraswati (Sharada Peeth)

The ruined Sharada Peeth in the Kishanganga valley — once among the subcontinent's great centres of learning.

Sarvamangala (Gaya)

Mangla Gauri on the Bhasmakuta hill at Gaya — the breast Peetha, revered alongside the Vishnupad.

Sharada (Maihar)

Shondesh (Amarkantak)

Siddhivinayak

The only Ashtavinayak with the trunk turning right.

Somnath

First of the twelve Jyotirlinga, on the Saurashtra coast.

Sri Mushnam Bhuvarahaswamy

Srikalahasteeswara (Air)

Represents Vayu — air.

Srirangam Ranganathaswamy

Largest functioning Hindu temple in the world.

Sugandha