Mamleshwar Temple, Omkareshwar

Mamleshwar, also known as Amareshwar, is the Shiva temple on the south bank of the Narmada at Omkareshwar. Many traditions count its linga together with the Omkareshwar shrine as forming a single Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga, so pilgrims visit both. This page covers the Mamleshwar shrine specifically, reached across the river from the sacred Omkar Parvat.

The Shiva shrine on the south bank

Omkareshwar lies where the Narmada divides around an island shaped, by tradition, like the syllable Om. While the famous Omkareshwar temple rises on the island’s Omkar Parvat, Mamleshwar stands across the water on the south bank, and devotees cross the river to reach it.

Here Shiva is worshipped as Mamleshwar, the form also called Amareshwar. The shrine’s position on the mainland bank, facing the island, places it in direct relationship with the Omkareshwar temple opposite.

Mamleshwar and the Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga

A long-held tradition holds that the Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga is not confined to the island shrine alone. Many accounts count the Mamleshwar (Amareshwar) linga together with Omkareshwar as forming the single Jyotirlinga, which is why pilgrims undertaking the Jyotirlinga darshan visit both temples.

For this reason a visit to Omkareshwar is, for many, incomplete without darshan at Mamleshwar. The two shrines are treated as complementary halves of one sacred reality rather than as rival claims.

Old stone and copper-plate history

Mamleshwar is a temple of old stone construction, and its long history is recorded in copper-plate grants — inscribed metal documents that note endowments and confirm the shrine’s antiquity. Such records give the temple a documented past beyond legend alone.

The masonry and these inscriptions together mark Mamleshwar as a foundation of considerable age, worn by centuries of worship on the Narmada’s bank.

• Shiva temple on the south bank of the Narmada at Omkareshwar
• Worshipped as Mamleshwar, also called Amareshwar
• Counted with Omkareshwar as the single Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga
• Old stone construction with copper-plate grants recording its history
• Reached across the river from Omkar Parvat

Visiting Mamleshwar

Pilgrims generally pair darshan at Mamleshwar with the island Omkareshwar temple, crossing the Narmada to complete both. The riverside setting, with bathing ghats and the flow of the sacred Narmada, frames the whole pilgrimage.

Mahashivratri and the month of Shravan bring the largest gatherings, as they do across Shiva shrines, while the steady stream of Jyotirlinga pilgrims keeps both temples active through the year.

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