01Kartikeya’s linga
The Kumarika Khanda of the Skanda Purana tells of the Mahi-Sagar Sangam. Kartikeya, commander of the Devas, slew Tarakasura; but Taraka had been a devotee of Shiva, and Kartikeya was troubled. Bhagwan Vishnu told him to set up Shiva lingas at the place, and the Devas raised a pillar, the Vishvanandaka Stambha, at the sangam. From the pillar the shrine takes its name, Stambheshwar.
02The sea’s own abhishek
The linga, about four feet high, stands on the beach in a small open shrine. As the tide comes in the water rises round it until the whole shrine disappears; hours later it walks back out of the sea. Pilgrims time their darshan by the tide table posted at the gate and watch the sea perform the abhishek. Shravan, Mahashivaratri, and the full and new moons draw the crowds, when the tides are highest.
Kavi Kamboi is in Jambusar taluka, about 75 km from Vadodara; stay for a full tide cycle to see the shrine go under and come back.
