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At Koliyak, a village at the Bhavnagar district in the Gujarat state of India, people reach out to the Shiva temple that lies about 1.5 kilometers into the sea. In this historic place, Pandavas, the heroic brothers worshipped the lingas that are symbolic of Lord Shiva after the fierce battle in which they killed their evil cousins as narrated in the epic Mahabharat. Think of a temple in the weirdest of places. Literally in the sea! But then, the Hindus have built their temples over the hills and mountains, inside caves, at the sea shore, near waterfalls - whereever nature reveals itself in all its grandeur and pristine beauty. The temple I am talking about is Nishkalank Mahadev's temple (Nishkalank -- blemish-less or sinless; Mahadev -- Lord Shiva), and it is under water during high tides
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