The Prabhasa Kshetra is extolled in the Mahabharata & Skanda Purana as the place where the moon (Somadev) was rid of his curse by the grace of Mahadev..it is counted as the first of the sacred 12 Jyotirlingas. It was a great fortune to visit this beautiful shrine, overlooking the vast expanse of the Arabian Sea; a shrine that has doggedly stood as a symbol of our resistance for a 1000 years since January 1026 CE when the marauder fom Ghazni came first to destroy it. . . Numerous heroes & heroines through the centuries - Maharaja Kanhad Dev Chauhan of the Jalore clan, Veer Hammir ji Gohil, Mularaja Solanki, Kumarapal Solanki, Mahipal Chaudasama, Khengarji Chudasama, Maharaja Nagabhatta, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar to modern leaders like Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, KM Munshi ji and the Jamsahib of Nawanagar Digvijaysinhji kept this flame of faith alive against all odds. Just standing there, facing the vast sea which has been a witness to these acts of destruction and renaissance, was a moving ...