Ice Lingam at Amarnath Cave

Rajavalipataka, begun by Prjayabhatta has detailed references to the pilgrimage to Amarnath Cave.

Then, finally, Lord Shiva entered the Holy Amarnath Cave along with Parvati.

Famous Santoor artist Rahul Sharma named a track after Amarnath temple as " Shiva Linga: The Amarnath Cave "

Image: Pilgrims Riding on Ponies on the way to Amarnath. JPG | Pilgrims riding ponies on the way to Amarnath Cave

Image: Breathtaking scenery on way to Amarnath Cave. JPG | On way to Amarnath Cave

Image: Helicopter service Amarnath. JPG | Helicopter service up to panjtarni on route to Amarnath Cave

Image: Tent near Amarnath Cave. JPG | Tents are available to hire for a small fee near base of imposing Amarnath Cave as visible in background

Disaster struck as the top order started a procession back to the dressing room as Gavaskar ( 0 ), Kris Srikkanth ( 0 ), Mohinder Amarnath ( 5 ) and Sandeep Patil ( 1 ) leaving India at a precarious 9 / 4 that turned to 17 / 5 when Yashpal Sharma ( 9 ) was dismissed.

Some holy sites of Kashmiri Pandits include the Martand Sun Temple at Mattan, Mahakali shrine in Srinagar on the banks of vitasta, & above all the Amarnath cave shrine, the pilgrimage to which is conducted during shravan purnima.

Sid Barnes, traps Lala Amarnath lbw in the first official Test between Australia and India at the MCG in 1948

Mohinder Amarnath played 69 Tests scoring 4, 378 runs at an batting average of 42. 50, with 11 hundreds and 24 fifties, and claimed 32 wickets at a bowling average of 55. 68 apiece.

In One Day Internationals, Rameez Raja ( for Pakistan against England at Karachi in 1987 ) was given out for hitting the ball away with his bat to avoid being run out going for his century off the last ball of the innings, and Mohinder Amarnath ( for India against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad in 1989 ) was given out for kicking the ball away to avoid being run out.

During the Month of March / April, around Raksha Bandhan time, one can witness the miraculous formation of Shiv Linga at Amarnath Temple.

Fazal made his Test debut in the first match at Delhi, taking 2 / 92 in India's first innings, his maiden wicket was Indian captain, Lala Amarnath.

Amarnath was an aggressive left-handed batsman who performed extremely well at Indian domestic level but was largely unable to cement a regular place in the Indian national team.

Making his first-class cricket debut as a fifteen year old in a career that spanned from 1963 to 1985, Amarnath scored 8175 runs at the impressive batting average of 40. 47.

Amarnath was finally put in to bat at the end of the day.

Juggernaut's track, " Bubbleman ", received an honourable mention in the Rock category at the 2004 International Songwriting Competition for its songwriters, Amarnath and Krishna.

Khan debuted after director K. Amarnath saw him at a wedding and was impressed by his good looks.

Only 19 at the time, his opening partner was the 41-year old Lala Amarnath.

* Mohinder Amarnath was dismissed after pushing away a turning ball from Greg Matthews that spun back towards his wicket.

* Mohinder Amarnath-for India v Sri Lanka in October 1989 ( Amarnath pushed a ball away from his stumps )

Aside from being a tenacious batsman, Lala Amarnath was also a bowler of some repute and was the only bowler to dismiss Donald Bradman hit wicket.

Amarnath was controversially sent back from the 1936 tour of England by the captain, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, for " indiscipline ".

The first instance in One Day Internationals was in 1986, when the Indian batsman Mohinder Amarnath knocked away a turning delivery from Australia's Greg Matthews that was heading for the stumps.

He brought up the mark with an all run five, having turned a short ball from Lala Amarnath towards the square leg boundary.

Jaipur House, after Rai Bahadur Amarnath Atal arranged for contributions of 1 lakh ( 100, 000 rupees ) from the Durbar of Jaipur .. No building was named after Rai Bahadur Rameshwar Nathany, since his donation of 1 lakh ( 100, 000 rupees ) was initially anonymous.

Vizzy had Amarnath pad up, but didn't put him in to bat as a succession of other batsmen were sent in ahead of him, which prevented Amarnath from resting his injury.

Vizzy took this as an affront, and conspired with team manager Major Jack Brittain-Jones to have Lala Amarnath sent back from the tour without playing the first test match.

Matthews dismissed Srikkanth, Mohinder Amarnath and Pandit as India collapsed from 200 / 2 to 291 / 6.

He played in all five Tests against India in the Australian summer of 1947 – 48, and earned praise from Indian skipper Lala Amarnath who described him as the " greatest keeper he had seen ".

Inside the high Amarnath cave, an ice stalagmite gets formed due to freezing of water drops that fall from the roof of the cave on to the floor and grows up vertically from the cave floor.

The northern route is along the Amarnath valley and all along the route one can see the river Amaravathy ( It is more like a tributary of Chenab ) which originates from Amarnath Glacier.

In 1999, Amarnath and Krishna Jones created a new acoustic blues-rock band, Juggernaut, which issued three EPs, Million Miles from Home ( 1999 ), Better Than Everyone ( 2000 ) and Head in the Clouds ( September 2004 ); and a studio album, Burn.

Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, to keep the Yatra going and continue to attract the devout pilgrims, dumped loads of ice over the original stalagmite under the guise of keeping the cave cool.

Amarnath Temple, a famous shrine in Hinduism dedicated to Shiva is located in Phalgam.

In the year 2006, a controversy broke up about an artificial Shiva Lingam in Amarnath.

Phil Jones ( aka Shiva Shankar Jones ), father of Amarnath and Krishna, is a musician, who worked with 1960s group The Unknown Blues.

With more technical batsman in the side during his times like Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath, Ravi Shastri etc., he could fancy hitting the bowlers all over.

De Silva took three wickets for 29, including Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohinder Amarnath, as India crashed to 191 all out.