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Bharat Mata Mandir (meaning "Mother India Temple") is located on the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.Instead of traditional statues of gods and goddesses, this temple has a huge map of Akhand Bharat carved in marble.
A chart of the main Hindu deities (with pictures) Collection: "Hindu Gods and Goddesses" from the University of Michigan Museum of Art "Deities in Stone: Hindu Sculpture from the Collections of the Asian Art Museum" exhibition at the SFO Museum "Seeing the Divine in Hindu Art" exhibition at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of ...
Mitra, the god of oaths, promises, and friendships; Varuna, the god of water the seas, the oceans, and rain; Indra, also called Śakra, the king of gods, and the god of weather, storms, rain, and war; Savitr, the god of the morning sun; associated with Surya; Aṃśa, solar deity; associated with Surya; Aryaman the god of customs, hospitality ...
The ceiling panel grid (ashta-dik-pala grid) of images in the mahamantapa (a section of the mantapa) needs special mention and speaks of the good taste of the Ganga-Nolamba architects. The panel images include a four handed dancing and well ornamented Shiva, and a four tusked elephant ( gaja ) carrying on its back the god Indra and his consort ...
The diagram of these guardian gods of directions is featured in Surya Majapahit, the emblem of Majapahit empire. There are strong similarities between the concept of the guardians of the directions and the lore surrounding the Chinese four symbols , four ancestral spirits who are responsible for four of the cardinal directions (North, South ...
List of Hindu temples in India; By state: List of Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh. List of Hindu temples in Tirupati; List of Hindu temples in Bihar; List of Hindu temples in Goa; List of Hindu temples in Karnataka; List of Hindu temples in Kerala. Goud Saraswat Brahmin temples in Kerala; List of Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu. List of temples in ...
[25] [26] He is a pan-Hindu god, but is particularly revered in some locations, such as Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, [27] Dwarka and Junagadh in Gujarat; the Jagannatha aspect in Odisha, Mayapur in West Bengal; [23] [28] [29] in the form of Vithoba in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, Shrinathji at Nathdwara in Rajasthan, [23] [30] Udupi Krishna in ...
Thirty-two forms of Ganesha are mentioned frequently in devotional literature related to the Hindu god Ganesha. [1] [2] [3] The Ganesha-centric scripture Mudgala Purana is the first to list them. [4] Detailed descriptions are included in the Shivanidhi portion of the 19th-century Kannada Sritattvanidhi.