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{{Infobox Hindu temple
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| native_name = Shree Moteshwar (Bheemashankar) Mahadev
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| state = [[Uttarakhand]]
| district = [[Udham Singh Nagar district|Udham Singh Nagar]]
| locale = [[Kashipur, Uttarakhand|Kashipur]]
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| deity = Bhimashankar ([[Shiva]])
| festivals= [[Maha Shivaratri]]
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Shree '''Moteshwar Mahadev''', also known as Shree Bheem Shankar Mahadev, is an abode of [[Lord Shiva]] in [[Kashipur, Uttarakhand|Kashipur]] of [[Uttarakhand|Uttarakhand state, India]]. This place was known as the Dakini State in ancient days.<ref name="Shivank Book Code 635">{{cite web|url=http://gitapress.org|title=Shivank (Book Code 635)|publisher=[[Gita Press]]|location=[[Gorakhpur]]|year=1938|accessdate=2015-01-01}}</ref>

Kashipur (Govishn) is a historic place in [[Udham Singh Nagar district]]. Around 1 km away is a place known as Ujjanak. This is where Lord Shiva is situated in his full face as a Jyotirlingam known as Bheem Shankar. This is the Bheem Shankar Jyotirlingam.

==Pooja ==

Timings: 6:00 AM to 12:00 Noon & 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

===Deity===

The primary deity worshiped is [[Shiva]]. Other deities are [[Parvati]], [[Murugan|Kartikeya]], [[Ganesha]] [[Hanuman]], [[Kali]], [[Bhairo]]

==Fairs==

* Maha [[Shivratri]] Fair
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100927051520/http://tdil.mit.gov.in/CoilNet/IGNCA/utrn0031.htm Chaiti Mela]
* Shrawan Mela

==Visiting==

Shree Moteshwar (Bheema Shankar) Mahadev is in the Ujjanak area of [[Kashipur, Uttarakhand|Kashipur]] which is around 3 km from the Kashipur bus station. Kashipur is well connected by road with all major cities of North [[India]] and is linked to [[Delhi]], [[Lucknow]], [[Moradabad]], [[Ramnagar, Nainital|Ramnagar]] and [[Varanasi]] by train.

The nearest airport is at [[Pantnagar]] which is about 72 km from Kashipur. Apart from Pantnagar, it is 223 km from the [[Jolly Grant Airport]] [[Dehradun]] major Airport of the State of Uttarakhand.

==Kashipur==
{{main|Kashipur, _Uttarakhand}}

Kashipur was known as Govishan or Govisana during the time of [[Harsha]] (606–647 AD), when [[Xuanzang]] (631–641 AD) visited this region. The ruins of the large settlement of those days are still near the city.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=History of Uttaranchal|author=Hāṇḍā, O.|date=2002|publisher=Indus Publishing Company|isbn=9788173871344|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_Ct9gzvkDQC|page=75|accessdate=2015-01-01}}</ref> Kashipur is named after Kashinath Adhikari, the founder of the township and governor of the ''pargana'', one of the officers of the [[Chand Kings]] of [[Kumaon division|Kumaon]] in the 16th-17th century.<ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_077.gif Kashipur town] [[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]], 1909, v. 15, p. 71.</ref>

Poet Gumani wrote a poem<ref>[http://kashipur.in/node/2 अजब देखा काशीपुर शहर सारे जगत मे ।।] Page 55-56 Kumaun Ka Itihas by BD Pande (written in 1937)</ref> on this town. Girital and Drona sagar are well-known spots and are associated with the story of the Pandavas. The Chaiti mela<ref name="mit">{{cite web |url=http://tdil.mit.gov.in/CoilNet/IGNCA/utrn0031.htm |title=Chaiti Mela |publisher=tdil.mit.gov.in |accessdate=2015-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927051520/http://tdil.mit.gov.in/CoilNet/IGNCA/utrn0031.htm |archive-date=27 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is the best known fair of Kashipur. Today Kashipur is an important industrial township. In autumn (after monsoon) one can see the snowclad peaks of Trishul and its surroundings.

== History ==

According to the [[Shiva Purana]] Bhima Shankar Jyotirlingam is in Kamroop. After seeing historic and spiritual books, it is called the place of Bheem Shankar Jyotirlingam. The reason for this is after looking to many of the spiritual books we come to know that this place was known as Kamroop.

In Mahabharata time this place was also known as [[Dakini]]. This was the reason [[Adi Shankaracharya]] has illustrated the place by saying "Dakiniyam Bhimashankaram". Its existence is also described by [[Kālidāsa|Kalidas]] in his "[[Raghuvansh]]". Hence we have to believe that this is the Kamroop Desh. The reason for the name Dakini is the forests which has gone from [[Saharanpur]] to [[Nepal]] consisted a Hidimba named devil which took birth in Dakini Yoni and got married with the victorious PandavaBhushan BheemSen. She was a Dakini but as she lived in a devil posture she was called a Devil.<ref>[[Mahabharat]] Van Parv</ref>

The lingam of this temple is very large and touching the whole ling with two human hands is impossible. This kind of lingam is not present in any other part of the country. It is believed that it rises and till now it has reached second floor. After seeing many facts we can say this temple was built around 302 AD. It includes a Bhairav Nath temple and a Kund known as Shiv Ganga Kund; in front of this kund is the river Kosi. On the West is a temple of Maa Jagdamba Bhagwati Balsundari, and every year in the month of Chaitra a huge fair is organized here. A place known as Kila describes the historic scenes of this temple. This is the kila where Guru Dronacharya gave teaching to [[Kaurava]] and [[Pandava]]. Guru dronacharya motivated Bheemsen to reconstruct this temple which later was known as Bheem Shankar. Shravan Kumar rested here. West to this kila is Dronasagar which was also built by pandavas for their guru Dronacharya. The lingam is too fat so people here named it "Moteshwar Mahadev".

Shree Moteshwar (Bheema Shankar) Mahadev is regarded as one of the 12 [[Jyotirlinga]] of Lord Shiva. Information about this temple is also referred in [[Mahabharat]]<ref name="Shivank Book Code 635"/>

Shiv Manokamna Kund is adjacent to the temple.<ref name="Light of divinity !">[http://kashipur.in/userblog/abhisheknagar/light-divinity-moteshwar-mahadeo Light of divinity !] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721162855/http://kashipur.in/userblog/abhisheknagar/light-divinity-moteshwar-mahadeo |date=21 July 2011 }}</ref>

There is a [[Bhimashankar Temple]] near [[Pune]] in [[Maharashtra]], which was also referred to as Daakini country and considered as one of the [[Jyotirlinga]]. Bhimshankar temple near [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]] is the jyotirlinga according to Sivapuran. According to "Linga Puran", [[Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga (Dakinyam), Bhimpur|Bhimshankar Temple at Bhimpur]] near [[Gunupur]] of [[Rayagada]] District in [[Odisha, India|Odisha]] is debated as one of the Jyotirling, which is at the western part of the holy [[Mahendragiri (Odisha)|Mahendragiri mountain]]s and at the river.

The river flowing beside the Moteshwar Maha Dev Temple of Kashipur (Uttarakhand) is locally known as Bahela and not Kosi which is about 09 km eastward to this place near village Patti Sultanpur on the NH 74 i.e. the Baz pur Road heading towards Rudrapur in the east.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=http://moteshwar.org|title=Shree Bheemshankar (Moteshwar) Mahadev|publisher=moteshwar.org|accessdate=2015-01-01}}
* [http://kashipur.in Kashipur.in]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721162541/http://gallery.kashipur.in/main.php?g2_itemId=160 Gallery]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100927051520/http://tdil.mit.gov.in/CoilNet/IGNCA/utrn0031.htm Chaiti Mela Kashipur]

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