A Shivling of the Somnath temple that was destroyed a thousand years ago, when Mahmud Ghazni had invaded India, is in the process of being revived. A few Agnihotri priests had taken the broken pieces of the Shivling. Sitaram Shastry, a priest from the lineage of saints who has been preserving the pieces of the sacred Shivling, met spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to get the Lingam consecrated at the Somnath Temple. Somnath Shivling destroyed by Mahmud Ghazni 1,000 years ago revived by Agnihotri Brahmin family
A Shivling of the Somnath temple that was destroyed a thousand years ago, when Mahmud Ghazni had invaded India, is in the process of being revived. A few Agnihotri priests had taken the broken pieces of the Shivling. Sitaram Shastry, a priest from the lineage of saints who has been preserving the pieces of the sacred Shivling, met spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to get the Lingam consecrated at the Somnath Temple. 
