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Sep 18 5 tweets 2 min read
One minute silence for the people who consider Ramayana, a mythology.

Book-IV Kiskinda Kand of Valmiki Ramayan, Sarga -40, Verse -53 enumerates-

“त्रिशिरा; काञ्चनः केतुस्तालस्तस्य महात्मनः |
स्थापितः पत्रतस्याभ्रे विराजति सवेदिकः ।।”

⬇️ Which means that a golden pylon resembling a palm tree with three branches as its heads is established on the peak of that mountain as the insignia of that great-souled Ananta, and it will be lustrous with a golden podium.

Again Verse-54 & 55 elucidate -

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May 13, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
24 Parshurameshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar, #Odisha

Six-armed Maa Mahisamarddhini inside a chaitya-medallion above the parshvadevata niche at the base of the gandi on the north side of the deula.

⬇️ Image Here, She plants her uplifted right foot on the left arm of the buffalo-demon (Mahisasur) while pushing back its buffalo-head with her major left arm. The arm is slightly bent inward suggesting great force.

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May 13, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
22 Parshurameshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar, #Odisha

The beautiful sculpture of Karttikeya in the east raha niche, where he is seated in Lalitasana on a throne with his right hand holding a vija-puraka and his left hand the shakti.

⬇️ Image He is ornately bejewelled with a double-strand necklace having various shaped hanging pendants, a yajitopavita formed of interlocking chain-links, a pearl-string waist-belt, chain-like girdle, jewelled arm-bands with dripping festoons, anklets and bracelets.

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May 12, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
21 Parshurameshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar, #Odisha

Though there are several depictions of Ganesha in this temple, it’s the 2nd major sculpture of Ganesha, accompanying the Saptamatrukas on the north side of the jagamohana.

⬇️ Image Here also He is seated in ardhaparyanka asana plucking sweets from a modaka-patra held in his lower left hand. His major right hand, resting on his knee, holds the radish (kandamula in Odia). His uplifted back hands hold the rosary and kuthara (quite similar like the last

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May 12, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
20 Parshurameshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar, #Odisha

In pic it’s the parshvadevata Ganesha in the south raha niche; dates back to the mid of 7th Century CE.
Here he is seated in ardhapayranka pose, plucking sweets from a modaka-patra held in his major left hand.

⬇️ Image His main right hand is resting on his knee, holds a rosary (it’s missing now but the one can articulate) while the uplifted right hand holds a radish, badly damaged. The uplifted left hand holds the kuthara/kurhadi (axe).

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May 8, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
Varuneshvara Temple, just at the left side of Maitreshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar, #Odisha.

As per the inscriptions of Papanasini, it was built by the Commander-in-chief of Gajapati Kapilendra Deva, Sri Ranasura Mahasenapati in the year 1449.

⬇️ Image The temple is built in Pancharatha Style and Panchangabada elevation. The entrance to the Jagamohana has a Navagraha panel together with a sculpture of Maa Gaja-Lakshmi.

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Mar 12, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
The Karna Temple Complex, main temple was built by Raja Lakshmikarna, also known as Raja Karan of the Kalachuris of Tripuri, Amarkantak. 😍🙏🏽🚩

The history of the concerned temple complex goes back to 8th century CE.
See thread ⬇️ Image When Adi Shankaracharya built a Surya-Kunda to specify the origin of river Narmada. He also installed the murty of Bhagvan Shiva at Pataleshwar. The Pataleshwar Temple was built later by Kalchuri king “Karna Deva” (1041-1073 CE). The construction of the “Karna Mandir”
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Jan 7, 2023 13 tweets 6 min read
I've mentioned earlier about the history of Odisha's Pattachitra tradition. There are remarkable varieties of Pattachitra paintings which need a brief elaboration.

Some of the Pattachitra paintings types are -

(a) Sri Jagannath Pati.

⬇️ Image (b) Pattachitra based on different episodes of the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavat Geeta and other Puranas or Kavyas.

(c) Pattachitra on Odisha folklores.

(d) Pattachitra on the ritual art of the vratas and modes of worshipping the Gods and Goddesses of Odisha.

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Dec 23, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
The very name Lakulisha (लकुलीश), comes from the integration of two words लकुट (Mace) + ईश (Ishvar) and finally it means A Ishvar with Gada/Mace. He was a prominent Shaivite revivalist, reformist, and preceptor of the doctrine of the Pashupatas,
⬇️ one 2 of the oldest sects of Shaivism. Lakulisha has also been mentioned as ‘Nakulisha’ in several places. Around the 2nd century CE, Lakulisha was born in a Brahmin family and lived in Kayavatara or Kayavarohan (Present day Karvan), located in Vadodara district of Gujarat.
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Nov 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The 2nd Highest Shiva Murty, Murudeshwara Temple, Bhatkala Taluk, Karnataka. 😍🙏🏼🚩
Its main attraction is a Shiva Temple with Chalukya and Kadamba sculptures built in the Dravidian style of architecture with an awesome Shiva murty and its pristine beach.
⬇️ The temple is located on a hillock which offers a magnificent view of the sea. The temple complex is famous for its tall Shiva statue which is around 37 m high and is the tallest Shiva statue in India. The temple gopura at 237 ft is the 2nd tallest in India.
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Nov 5, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
RajGopuram of Shree Ranganathaswamy Temple. 😍🙏🏼
The temple is one of the eight self-manifested shrines of Shree Vishnu. Prabhu Ranganatha or Vishnu has manifested himself in three places in the East at Srirangam, in the South at Ananthashaynam and in the West at Sriangapatna.
⬇️ At these three places the murtis are ‘swayamvyakt-moorthies’ i.e. they have not been made by man but were believed to be self-manifested. The scared place of Shree Ranganatha in the West is considered to be a very holy place by the ‘Devas’ including Bramha Rudra and by the
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Nov 5, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
The beautiful depiction of Sala fighting/trying to kill a Lion, at Chennakeshava Temple, Karnataka. 😍🙏🏽

During Sala’s hunting expedition a lion attacked, and the preceptor shouted in Kannada “Hoy Sala (kill Sala)”, which later became the name of the dynasty which ruled in
⬇️ Karnataka between 1022 – 1342 CE. The legend of Sala who killed the lion to save his Jaina preceptor Sudatta and had won a kingdom for himself ideally fitted into the animal-slayer motif already in vogue. As a result of the victory of the Hoysalas over another dynasty,
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Oct 18, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Morning view of Arulmigu Shree Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. 😍🙏🏼

A temple where Bhagvan Shiva is called Arunachaleswara or Annamalaiyar, the Arulmigu Annamalaiyar temple is a prominent Shiva temple associated with the ‘Pancha Bhoota Stalas’,

⬇️ the five elements, in which it is especially connected with the element ‘Agni’. The temple is ideally situated at the bottom of the Arunachala hill in Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu.
Bhagvan Shiva is represented in the form of ‘Lingam’ and is called Agni Lingam.
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Oct 17, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Brihadeeshwara Temple, Tanjavur, Tamilnadu. 😍🙏🏼
Built between 1003 CE to 1010 CE by the Chola king Rajaraja I in Chola Architecture.
All the magnificent features of this temple, make it a magnum opium of Chola reign.

Let's see some facts about the temple - 1. The original name of the deity was Rajarajeshwar. It was the Marathas who gave it the name Brihadeeshwara or the Great Ishwara.

2. The main temple is entirely built of granite. More than 130,000 tons of granite is said to have been used to build it.

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Oct 16, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Conveying my thankfulness to you all. With all your support and love, today I am able to reach at a family of 15K. Can never forget each and every of your undeterred contribution to raise my account. 😊

May Shree Jagannath bless you all. 🙏🏽

Read, Truth Behind my Account ⬇️ As I had proclaimed before that; the day I get 15K family, shall unveil about the truth of this account;
At first, the idea that came to my mind to initiate such account regarding exploring the temples and briefing about the architectural wonders of the temples,
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Oct 16, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Pakshiraja Garuda lifting Shree Krishna and Maa Satyabhama on his back; murty on the outer wall of Kedareshwara Temple, Karnataka. 😍🙏🏽

Devaraja Indra planted the Parijata tree on Swargaloka, one of the products of the churning of the 'Ocean of Milk', in his garden

⬇️ (emerged from Samudra Manthan). Devarishi Narada, who delighted in sowing discord, brought a flower of this tree to Dwaraka and presented it to Shree Krishna. He waited to see to which of his wives Krishna would give the flower.
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Oct 15, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
Thread - "Navagunjara form of Shree Vishnu in Odia Mahabharat."

The Navagunjara primarily is an original contribution of Odisha’s Adikabi Sarala Das’s magnum opus retelling in the 15th century of the epic poem Mahabharata popularly known as the "Sarala Mahabharata".
⬇️ In this version of the Mahabharata, the Navagunjara is a form that Vishnu had taken in order to appear as a manifest being in front of Arjuna all of a sudden on the Manibhadra mountain in the Madhyaparva of Odia Mahabharata.
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Oct 5, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
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The Pavitra Peetha (sacred place) of Devi Hingula is situated on the bank of the river Simhada in the West of erstwhile Talcher Estate, Angul, Odisha.

In Assam, there is a place of pilgrimage named Maa Jwalamukhi Dham where a similar devi Hingula or Hingulei

Read ⬇️ or Hingulaksi is being worshipped. It is for this reason that the presiding deity of Talcher in the village 'Gopalprasad' who bears the form of fire is named Devi Hingula. Such peethas of Maa Hingula are also situated even outside India in Karachi and Kabul in the name of
Oct 3, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Sir, I read some references and got to this conclusion -
The rulers of Talcher belonged to Surya dynasty, during the reign of Purushottama Deva, the overlordship of Bhimanagari Dandapata was established in 1471 CE in the region by Narahari Singh who was the scion of the
⬇️ family of the ruling Suryavanshi Gajapati Kings of Odisha. Later in 1578 under the reign of Padmanabha Birabara Harichandan, the kingdom was renamed as Talcher after the name of the family goddess (Kula Devi) Maa Taleshwari.
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Jun 15, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
WHAT IS ANASARA PATTI ?
During the bathing festival of Mahaprabhu Shree Jagannath (Deva Snana Purnima) the Sri Jiews of the temple have a bath with 108 pots of cold water to fight the heat of summer.

#Jagannath 🙏🏼🚩
⬇️ After this royal bath ceremony the three Jiews are sick and they stay away from the public view for a period of 15 days. This period is known as 'Anasara' or 'Anavasara' period commences from Jyestha purnima and ends with Ashadha amavasya.
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May 3, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
#AkshayaTritiya 2022
The chariot construction work for Puri Ratha Yatra commences today at ‘Ratha Khala’ on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya.  😍🙏🏼↓

On the auspicious day of Akshaya Trutiya, the ‘Agyanaa Mala’ (consent garland of Mahaprabhu) is received
⬇️ and Ratha Katha Anukula ritual is performed.
This starts the process of chariot construction for Prabhu Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra & Mahaprabhu Jagannatha at the Bada Danda of Shree Jagannatha Temple, Puri.

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