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The grand red sandstone structures may look like temples. But they aren’t. The structures were built by a different purpose. Check out the video to know what it is for.
Do you know where Ravana got married to Mandodari?This small village in Rajasthan, is regarded as the parents’ house of Mandodari. Ravana had come here to get married to Mandodari, lived for few days and then again went back to Lanka with Mandodari. Did you know about this village? Let me know in comments.
Did you know about stepwells, the source that provided us water for centuries?
Among the Dikpalas — the guardians of the directions — the northeast belongs to Ishana. Closely associated with Shiva, Ishana is regarded as a form or aspect of Shiva and, in some traditions, is also counted among the eleven Rudras.Ishana has an early presence in Vedic literature. A well-known passage of the Krishna Yajurveda declares:Īśānaḥ sarvavidyānām īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānām…— Ishana as the Lord of all knowledge and the Lord of all beings. Later Shaiva and Puranic traditions further developed his identity and significance.His iconography usually makes his association with Shiva immediately visible. Ishana may be shown with the trishula, serpent, matted hair, crescent moon and the bull. Other representations introduce attributes such as a rosary, kamandalu, skull-cup or even a veena.But identifying Ishana on a temple wall is not always straightforward.There is no single iconographic formula followed everywhere. His number of arms, attributes, posture and accompanying symbols can change considerably according to region, period and textual tradition.And perhaps that is what makes studying the Dikpalas particularly interesting — the same cosmic idea takes remarkably different sculptural forms across Indian temples.
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