Editing Somnath temple (section)

==Nomenclature and significance==
Somnath means "Lord of the [[Chandra|Soma]]"  or "moon".{{refn|group=note|In anthropomorphic representations, a crescent of the moon is shown near Shiva's ''jata-mukuta'' (hair). This iconography appears in early texts and temples dated to the 6th-century.{{sfn|Rao|1985|pp=26–30, Plates VII & VIII}}}} The site is also called ''Prabhasa'' ("place of splendor").{{sfn|Eck|1999|p=291}} Somnath temple has been a ''[[jyotirlinga]]'' site for the Hindus, and a holy place of pilgrimage (''[[Tirtha (Hinduism)|tirtha]])''. It is one of five most revered sites on the seacoast of India, along with the nearby [[Dwarka|Dwaraka]] in [[Gujarat]], [[Puri]] in [[Odisha]], [[Rameswaram]] and [[Chidambaram]] in [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Diana L. |last1=Eck |title=India's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred Geography |jstor=1062459 |journal=History of Religions |year=1981 |pages=335, context: 323–344 |volume=20 |issue=4 |doi=10.1086/462878 |s2cid=161997590 |url=http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:25499831|url-access=subscription }}</ref>