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A temple is a place and structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer, worship and sacrifice, or analogous rites.
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Why are kumbhabhishekams of temples performed?
The sculptures of deities, consecrating them, performing pooja, are detailed in Agama Shastra. These were mostly codified in Tamil, Telugu, Grantha and Sanskrit scripts. The three main ones are Kamika …
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How do modern-day temples preserve the purity of the Prana-pratishtha of the installed idols?
See complete translation in
https://www.himalayanacademy.com/view/kamika-agama-purva-pada-part-1
If the people who perform the puja daily and the people who visit the temple are "pure" and follow the …
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Position of a Hindu temple in respect to flowing water (specific bank of a river)
The land (with respect to the river) where the temple should be constructed is given in agama shastra. …
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What do different Vaishnavite sects say about the sanctity of Siva temples?
Kurmanathaswamy temple, Srikurmam, is one of the few temples which was assumed to be a shiva temple and called Kurmeswara temple. … The Varaha Lakshmi Narayana temple of Simhachalam is another temple which was converted from a shiva temple to the vaishnavite temple. …
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Who is the sage Pundarika who saw Vishnu coming out of a Shiva Linga?
Sage Pundarika is the famous sage who offered lotus at the feet of Lord Vishnu (hence the name Pundarika, which means lotus).
The mention of this sage appears in the Kshetra khanda of the Brahmanda P …
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