The Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga shrine is located at a village called Verul. It is located at a distance of 11 km from Daulatabad near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. The Grishneswar Temple was constructed by Queen Ahilyabhai Holkar of Indore. She has also re-constructed the Kashi Viswanatha Temple at Varanasi which is also among one of the twelve Jyotirlingas. Grishneshwar is also known as Ghushmeshwar. The Lord is also known by several names like Kusumeswarar, Ghushmeswara, Grushmeswara, Grishneswara.

According to Shivapuran, there lived a Brahmin called Brahmavetta Sudharm along with his wife Sudeha. The couple did not have a child because of which Sudeha was sad. Frustrated of being childless, Sudeha got her sister Kusuma married to her husband. Kusuma was a devotee of Lord Shiva. She used to make 101 lingas, worship them and discharge them in the near by lake as a part of her daily ritual worship. With the blessings of Lord Shiva, Kusuma gave birth to a baby boy. Because of this her husband's first wife and her own sister Sudeha started feeling jealous. One night Sudeha killed Kusuma’s son and threw him in the lake where Ghushma used to discharge the lingas. Next day when Kusuma got up and came to know that her son has died she wept a lot but her faith in Lord Shiva was constant. After taking a bath Kusuma continued her ritual worship. She worshipped her Lord with same devotion and also followed her daily ritual of discharging the worshipped 101 shiv-lings in the lake. As soon as she immersed her last shiv-ling in the lake her son was miraculously restored to life. Shiva is said to have appeared in front of her and since then the shivalingam here has been worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlinga Ghusmeshwar.