Raghunath Ji Mandir - Jammu

A documented stop on Adi Shankaracharya's route across India.

Śrī Raghunātha Mandira, located in the heart of Jammu city, presents to the external observer the appearance of a 19th-century Dogra foundation. However, the living tradition of the temple preserves a far older sacred stratigraphy beneath this visible superstructure: the Raghunātha mūrti with his full parivāra is held to be of great antiquity, the present temple complex having been raised around an already ancient site of worship.
The presiding deity is Rāma-Raghunātha with subsidiary shrines housing Viṣṇu in his various incarnations, Śiva, and Sūrya — an unusually comprehensive embodiment of the full Hindu pantheon within a single complex.
Shastras and local oral tradition received at this site establishes a layered Śaṅkara-connection of exceptional density. Ādi Śaṅkarācārya is held to have visited the site, performed the formal pratiṣṭhāpana of the Raghunātha mūrti and parivāra, and worshipped a Śivalinga enshrined here — a liṅga that continues to receive worship to this day as directly consecrated by him.
The temple preserves multiple pādukās, among which one set carries a direct Ādi Śaṅkarācārya connection, and a smaller pādukā is associated with an anugraha — a specific act of grace — performed here by the Ācārya.
A second Śivalinga within the complex bears its own distinct tradition: that Śaṅkarācārya, before departing from Jammu, instructed the local king to have this liṅga established, leaving behind a directive that the king executed as an act of discipleship — making this liṅga not a Śaṅkara pratiṣṭhā but a Śaṅkara-prerita pratiṣṭhā, a consecration performed at his command.