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The Pashupati seal, showing a seated and possibly tricephalic figure, surrounded by animals; circa 2350–2000 BCE. The Pashupati seal (also Mahayogi seal, [1] Proto-Śiva seal [2] the adjective "so-called" sometimes applied to "Pashupati"), [3] is a steatite seal which was uncovered in Mohenjo-daro, now in modern day Pakistan, a major urban site of the Indus Valley civilisation ("IVC ...
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
North Texas Hindu Mandir (NTHM), is a Hindu Mandir in Dallas, Texas and is one of the many Hindu Temples located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Its located on 10309 Baronne Cir, Dallas, TX 75218. [1]
The Pashupati seal, showing a seated figure, surrounded by animals. The first known sculpture in the Indian subcontinent is from the Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1700 BCE). These include the famous small bronze Dancing Girl. However such figures in bronze and stone are rare and greatly outnumbered by pottery figurines and stone seals ...
Mould of Pashupati seal from the Indus Valley civilization, c. 2500 BC, its central figure in a pose resembling Mulabandhasana. Paśupati , "Lord of beasts", is a name of the later Hindu god Śiva . The central figure in the Pashupati seal from the Indus Valley civilization of c. 2500 BC appears to be sitting in Mulabandhasana, and hence ...
The Ganesh temple of Hindu Temple Society of North America is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western hemisphere, in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville , New Jersey , U.S., is the world's second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia .
It is located on a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) site at Windom near Dallas, Texas, United States. [2] Siddhayatan currently has miniatured versions of pilgrimage sites from India , including Kailash-Mansarovar , Lake Rakshastal , Ashtapad , Sammedshikhar , Bahubali , and thus is considered as a pilgrimage rather than a temple or place of worship or prayer.
Pashupati (Sanskrit: पशुपति, IAST: Paśupati) is a form of the Hindu deity Shiva, in his benign aspect as the five-faced herdsman of all creatures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Pashupati is traditionally considered to be the guardian deity of Nepal , described in texts such as the Nepala Mahatmya , found in regional versions of the Skanda Purana .