destroy all sins by visiting this shiva linga as in puranas

Mahabal Shiva Linga

Describing about Mahabal Shiva Linga, Sutji said to the sages- "Mahabal Shivalinga is situated at

Gokarna area. A devotee who has a darshan of Mahabal Shivalinga on the eighth or fourteenth day of

'Ardranakshatra falling on Monday, becomes free from all of his sins and attains to the Shivaloka."

Having a darshan of this Shivalinga on any other day too helps a man to attain to the abode of

Almighty. All the deities, ancestors, holy rivers like Ganga and the Nagas stand guard on all the four

entrances of Mahabal temple"

"Even the most degraded sinner attains salvation if he worships Mahabal Shivalinga on the fourteenth

day of Magha