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Shri Vaijnath Temple (Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga)

Parli, Beed, Maharashtra · 18.8486°, 76.5297°

Shiva, as the Vaidyanath JyotirlingaHolkarHemadpanthiJyotirlingadisputed

Contested attributions

This site is counted in the lists below by some sources and not others. We list the claim and the disagreement rather than silently picking a side.

Jyotirlinga — Wikipedia's Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga article names four temples that claim this slot - Parli in Maharashtra, Deoghar in Jharkhand, Baijnath in Kangra and Mahabaleshwar at Gokarna - states that the Government of India has notified none of them as the jyotirlinga, and records that Deoghar's priests protested in January 2018 when Parli's priest was invited to a congregation of the twelve jyotirlinga priests (as of 2026). source

Sacred since

1700 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

renovated 1706; rebuilt 18th c. (Ahilyabai Holkar)

Holkar

History & significance

A Shiva temple at Parli Vaijnath in Beed district counted as the fifth of the twelve Jyotirlingas, and among the most visited pilgrimage shrines of Marathwada.

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