Ekāmraka (Kāñcī)

Ekāmraka · eka-āmra-ka, “the place of the single mango tree”

Śambhu has other meanings too: see all meanings of Śambhu.

Ekāmraka is a holy kshetra named in Chapter 34 of the Brahma Purāṇa. The Telugu rendering adds in brackets that it is Kāñcī. There Parama-Śiva was dwelling, granting all desires, at the time when the yajña of Daksha had been destroyed.

Parama-Śiva at Ekāmraka

Brahmā tells the munis the account of Rudra. Rudra, the indweller of all, to do what was dear to Umā Devī, drove away all who had come to Daksha’s yajña: the devatās, the siddhas and vidyādharas, the ṛshis, the gandharvas, nāgas and yakshas. He destroyed the yajña, full of the finest things, with all its materials. Indra and the other devas, finding no peace before the might of the Svāmī, went to Kailāsa and took refuge in Bhagavān Śūlapāṇi, the bearer of the trident, the giver of varas, the destroyer of Daksha’s yajña.

At that time, the Purāṇa says, Parama-Śiva was dwelling in the kshetra of Ekāmraka, sarva-kāma-prada, the one who grants all desires.

Then the munis asked Brahmā why Śiva, who wishes the good of all beings, had destroyed a yajña that all the devatās had adorned, and Brahmā told them the account of Daksha and Satī.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 34

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 34