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Mpumalanga currently elects 15 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Constituency seats are allocated using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota .
In the Hindu tradition, a murti (Sanskrit: मूर्ति, romanized: mūrti, lit. ' form, embodiment, or solid object ') [1] is a devotional image, such as a statue or icon, of a deity or saint [2] used during puja and/or in other customary forms of actively expressing devotion or reverence - whether at Hindu temples or shrines.
The Prajāpati, cosmic Purusha and Agni are stated to be the same in sections 6.1.1 and 6.2.1 of Shatapatha Brahmana. [130] Varuṇa and Mitra: when Agni is born, he is Varuṇa; when he is kindled, he is Mitra. [128] He is also stated to become Varuṇa in the evening, and he is Mitra when he rises in the morning. [128]
The central shrine of the mandir houses the murti of Swaminarayan, with Gunatitanand Swami to his left, together worshipped as Akshar-Purushottam Maharaj.Other shrines hold the murtis of Ghanshyam Maharaj, Harikrishna Maharaj, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Parvati, Sita-Ram, Hanumana, Ganesh, and the lineage of BAPS gurus who are Swaminarayan's spiritual successors in BAPS. [2]
The brass images (utsav-murtis) are paraded around town and placed at their respective pithas once every year. Like Vishnudharmottara Purana (discussed in Legends ), the Matrikas are considered as representing a vice and are worshipped by pithapuja (a pilgrimage around the pithas ) to free oneself from them. [ 9 ]
Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials guard in a bunker on Sealdha Railway Station in Kolkata, India (EPA)
In 1993, [1] Lubisi began his career as a lecturer at the University of Natal's Pietermaritzburg campus, where he worked for the next ten years. [2] From 2002 to 2003, on secondment from the university, he chaired the Ministerial Project Committee that developed South Africa's National Curriculum Statement for Grades 10 to 12. [ 2 ]
This list of tallest Hindu deity statues includes completed statues that are at least 4 m (13 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the murti, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.