Moolavar

Moolavar

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Moolavar or Mulavar is a Sanskrit word referring to the main deity in a Hindu Temple. Moola means main that in turn refers to the primary deity stationary in the temple.[1]

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The sanctuary inside the Hindu temple is called Garba griha (dwelling of the embryo). The sanctum is located at the centre of the temple, and its only opening mostly faces east. The most ancient Hindu sanctuaries are flat stone dolmens, vertical and horizontal slabs forming a square room at the centre of a stone wall boundary. The more important gods, Moolavar are closed to the center of the temples than the images that surround them and are precisely located at the points corresponding to the energies they represent on the temple plan's magical diagram.[2]

Gallery

  • The Punnainallur Mariamman temple Moolavar, the main deity, Mariamman.

See also

References

  1. ^ Where gods come alive: a monograph on the bronze icons of South India.Baldev Raj, C. Rajagopalan, C. V. Sundaram
  2. ^ The Hindu Temple Deification of Eroticisim.Alain Danielou

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