Hours long queue at Somnath on second Somvar of Shravan(Photos)

It’s second Somvar of Shravan and Gujarat’s pilgrim town Somnath is packed with devotees. Thousands of people are continuously visiting the mandir throughout the day. All guest houses, hotels are full, trains and buses are booked. In fact for darshan of Shri Somnath, hundreds of devotees were standing in queue from 12.00 hours in the night waiting for opening of the gates of the mandir in the morning.

Among those prominent persons visiting Shri Somnath mandir today were Gujarat police chief DGP Shri Chitranjan Singh, central minister Tusharbhai Chaudhary, Member of parliament Shri Kunvarjibhai Bavalia, Viramgam’s MLA Shri Kamabhai Rathod, former district judge Shri Hitaben Pandya among others.

Gandhinagar district’s Por villages’s Jivabhai Raval and his group played traditional instruments like dhol, transa, shehnai, dugdugiyu etc before Shri Somnath mahadev’s linga.

DeshGujarat presents E-darshan of Shri Somnath mahadev’s latest shangar of second Somvar of Shravan here in the pictures above.