How to reach us
Shree Somnath Sanskrit University
Rajendra Bhuvan Road, Veraval – 362 266
District- Gir Somnath, Gujarat, India
Telephone: 02876- 244528 (Examination Section)
02876- 244529 (Registrar’s Office)
02876- 244530 (Vice-Chancellor’s Residence)
02876- 244531 (Vice-Chancellor’s Office)
02876- 244532 (University Office - General)
02876- 244533 (University Sanskrit College)
Fax No. : 02876- 244417
Cell No. : 0-94266-87450 (Vice-Chancellor)
0-94266-87451 (Registrar)
0-94266-87452 (Deputy Registrar)
- Somnath is around 430 km’s away from Ahmedabad, 110 km’s from Porbandar, 90 km’s from Diu and 190 km’s from Rajkot. All these above places are well connected through air (except Porbandar), rail and bus services.
- Somnath-Veraval is famous for Somnath Temple, one of the twelve Jyotirlings. Somnath also known as Prabhas Patan is the holy place of the Aadi Jyotirling Shree Somnath Mahadev and the sacred land where from Bhagvan Shri Krishna took his last journey to his nijadhāma. The temple is built at the shore of the Arabian Ocean on the western corner of Indian subcontinent. This pilgrimage is one of the oldest and finds its reference in the ancient texts like Skandapurāṇa, Ṡrīmad Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Ṡivapurāṇa