Shilpa Shastra – Moorthi Puja Part -1
1.
Moorthi Shilpa -Origins
The Ramayana talks
of Ram and Lakhsman being carried off to Lanka by Mahiraavana to
be sacrificed at the Temple-altar of the goddess Mahamaya, Hanumaan kills Mahiraavana and
rescues them. This confirms the existence of Temples at least in south India
evidencing the worship of idols enshrined in them. There is enough evidence to
prove that image worship was not unknown to the Vedic people during a period 10
to 15 thousand years ago.
Rukmini
went to the temple of her family deity Devi Girija in Vidarbha from where Lord Shri Krishna had
carried her away and married her.
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