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These sculptures were part of Bhima Devi Temple at Kalka, Haryana. Such beautiful and important part of our heritage again has no one to take care. A famous heritage conservation society remembers this palce just once a year and organises a so called conservation programme and heritage walk. Lot of media attention is arranged too. Sheer waste of time and money!
Taken at Dhamrai, Dhaka.
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Kanyakumari Temple, also known as Devi Kanya Kumari Temple or Kumari Amman Temple or Bhagavthy Amman Temple or Kanyakumari Devi Temple or Arulmigu Bhagavathi Amman Temple, dedicated to the virgin Goddess Kanyakumari - an incarnation of Goddess Parvati, located in Kanya Kumari (formerly Cape Comorin) on the confluence of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.
The Kumari means is Virgin and Amman means Goddess. As Kanya Kumari, both Kanya and Kumari means virgin. She is also known by several other names, including Kanya Devi and Devi Kumari. Bhagavathy Amman is the popular name. She is the virgin goddess.
Main entrance to the temple is through the Northern Door and the deity faces east. The Eastern Door of the temple is only opened on five special occasions throughout the year. There are three corridors which encircle the sanctum.
Location: Kanyakumari(Cape Comorin), Kanyakumari District, Tamilnadu State, India.
At Khajuraho, MP
There's a skull in one of the left hands of this idol! This was something unique. It was really high on top of the temple and I zoomed in and saw the skull and I was totally intrigued. I'm still not very sure which god this is but I'm guessing it's Shiva. Also, the idol has two other symbols of Shiva in its other hand - the damaru ( a kind of drum) and the trishul ( a trident). I'm terrible at identifying gods and symbols and this was the only one I identified when even our guide was struggling to guess which god it was :D. I remembered one story I had read about Shiva when I was really young where he was shown to be the ruler of the underworld and he had his own skeleton army [ or army of the dead] which he summons to fight some injustice. I retold this and my friends all gave me looks accompanied with "what are you saying" and I replied coolly - "It's true. He is also known as the ruler of the underworld. This is Shiva"
Then the guide added "Yeah most probably she is right. There is also the typical damaru in one of its hands and the trishul"
Everyone was so focused on the skull that they couldn't make out what the other symbols could be.
After the guide pointed out the damaru and the trishul, my friends kinda agreed that it could be Shiva and moved on but I was proud that I could identify at least one god, and moreover do it without relying on his most well known symbols.
Bijaya dashami (Sanskrit: विजयादशमी) also known as Dashahara (Sanskrit: दशहरा) or Ayudhapuja (Sanskrit: आयुधपूजा), is one of the most important Hindu festivals celebrated in various forms, across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh as well as parts ofPakistan. The name Dussehra is derived from Sanskrit. Dasha-hara literally means Dashanan ravan (the name of Ravan and in short Dasha and Hara (defeat)) referring to Lord Rama's victory over the ten-headed demon king Ravana.
The day also marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasur. The name Dussehra is also derived from SanskritAhaha, which means day. For example, Aharnisha is derived from Ahaha+nisha. The Goddess fought with evils for nine nights and ten days. The name Vijayadashami is also derived from the Sanskrit words "Vijaya-dashami", literally meaning the victory on the dashami (Dashmi being the tenth lunar day of the Hindu calendar month). Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is celebrated twenty days after Dussehra.
A fun pre wedding photo session with Devi and Broto. Second job session for my little Fujifilm XM1, and so far the little camera works fabulously. As a backup, I bring along a loaned 60D and few lenses, but in the end the one who eat 8Gigs of storage was the XM1, paired with the 16-50 'kit' lens and Zeiss Touit 1.8/32 ... Love to be X-Shooters :p