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Hindus are the largest population group in Mauritius. The island has several Hindu temples. The largest is located at the sacred lake “Ganga Talao”, representing the Ganges River of India. This ancient volcano crater is tucked away in the mountains of the southwest and is surrounded by colourful Hindu temples and deities.
This four-armed beauty is Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity in all forms, both material and spiritual.
The front two arms represent material pursuits, the back two arms spiritual realm.
a special holy day for women at the lake who come to bathe and have some time away from the men folk .. :)
This is an imagined skeleton of a creature in Hindu mythology. Being part elephant, crocodile, fish and more, Makara was believed to have been able to roam in multiple realms. An exhibit at UrMu (Urban Museum) in Kuala Lumpur.
Ganesha or Ganesh, also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bali (Indonesia) and Bangladesh and in countries with large ethnic Indian populations including Fiji, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago. Hindu denominations worship him regardless of affiliations.Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains and Buddhists.
Although he is known by many attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify.Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom. As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rites and ceremonies. Ganesha is also invoked as patron of letters and learning during writing sessions. Several texts relate mythological anecdotes associated with his birth and exploits.
Ganesha likely emerged as a deity as early as the 1st century CE,but most certainly by the 4th and 5th centuries CE, during the Gupta period, although he inherited traits from Vedic and pre-Vedic precursors. Hindu mythology identifies him as the restored son of Parvati and Shiva of the Shaivism tradition, but he is a pan-Hindu god found in its various traditions. In the Ganapatya tradition of Hinduism, Ganesha is the supreme deity. The principal texts on Ganesha include the Ganesha Purana, the Mudgala Purana, and the Ganapati Atharvashirsa. Brahma Purana and Brahmanda Purana are other two Puranic genre encyclopaedic texts that deal with Ganesha.
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा॥
This is view of the interior part of the Southern Outer Gallery with some of the most famous bas-relief carvings named "Army of Suryavarman II Gallery".
The bas relief carvings are on all four sides of the outer walls of the Outer Gallery. They tell Hindu stories of heaven and hell and great armies and struggles of the world. These reliefs are detailed and very well preserved when considering that they were carved in the 1100s. They are not worn out (protected by solid gallery roofs supported by solid columns and walls). There are darkened areas where visitors had touched the relief.
Angkor Wat ("Capital Temple") is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world measuring 162.6 hectares. It was originally constructed in early 12th century by King Suryavarman II as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire and gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia (national flag) and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.
Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple-mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to represent Mount Meru. Within the moat is the outer wall 3.6 kilometers long and there are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the center of the temple stands a quincunx of towers. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west; scholars are divided as to the significance of this. The temple is admired for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, its extensive bas-reliefs, and for the numerous devatas (deity) adorning its walls.
Man resting in one of the openings in the outer galleries next to the iconic Angkor Wat style "window blinds", the unique carved sandstone pillars providing symmetric ornamental shelter and shelter from rain and sunshine.
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Varanasi (Inde) - Ces petites cases sont l’équivalent de nos cabines de plages. Elles appartiennent à des familles relativement aisée afin qu’elles puissent se changer après avoir fait leur ablutions et leurs prières dans les eaux boueuses et polluées du Gange.
Sur les 2.525 km du fleuve, 200.000 millions de litres d’eau sont rejetés chaque jour, sans traitement. Le taux de matière fécale, de produits toxiques et autres bactéries, ont tué toute forme de vie aux abord des ville riveraines. Comme le fleuve sacré est sous la protection de Shiva, les hindous sont convaincus qu’ils ne risquent rien…
Varanasi (India) - These small huts are the equivalent of our beach huts. They belong to relatively wealthy families so that they can change after having performed their ablutions and prayers in the muddy and polluted waters of the Ganges.
Along the entire length of the river, 200,000 million liters of water are discharged every day, without treatment. The rate of fecal matter, toxic products and other bacteria, have killed all forms of life in the waters around the riverside cities. As the sacred river is under the protection of Shiva, Hindus are convinced that they risk nothing...
The Sri Mariamman Temple is Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.
It is built in the South Indian architecture| style.
Due to its architectural and historical significance, the temple has been gazetted as a National Monument. Historically, the temple was the registry of Hindu marriages. At that time, only the priest of the Sri Mariamman Temple was authorized to solemnize Hindu marriages in Singapore.
A Hindu Sadhu (ascetic monk), covered with Rudraksha beads, meditates on the streets of Varanasi, India in search of spiritual enlightenment. Rudraksha beads are considered extremely holy in Hinduism, believed to be tears of Lord Shiva, offering spiritual protection, calmness, and growth by connecting wearers to divine energy.
Wishing light, love, health, happiness and prosperity to all of my Hindu and Sikh friends...
and to the rest of you all as well!
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Kinetic Photograph made with one single long exposure shot. See more in: "The Best of Drawing with Light"
Bawaria Hindu Tribe is an ancient nomadic hunter tribe of Cholistan. They are son of the soil whose forefathers were primarily cultivators residing on the banks of the lost river Sarsvati. With the dried up of the river this area was deserted through desertification process and left only grazing land. Cholistan is a cradle of great Indus civilization and the Bawaria of Cholistan are representative of this civilization. Though nationalization has affected their culture. However, they are still staunch follower of their centuries old cultural traditions.
Chhath is an ancient Hindu festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,West Bengal, Jharkhand, and the Nepalese provinces of Madhesh and Lumbini. Prayers during Chhath puja are dedicated to the solar deity, Surya, to show gratitude and thankfulness for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and to request that certain wishes be granted.
Chhathi Maiya, the sixth form of Devi Prakriti and Lord Surya's sister is worshipped as the Goddess of the festival. It is celebrated six days after Deepavali, on the sixth day of the lunar month of Kartika (October–November) in the Hindu calendar Vikram Samvat. The rituals are observed over four days. They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water (vrata), standing in water, and offering prasad (prayer offerings) and arghya to the setting and rising sun. Some devotees also perform a prostration march as they head for the river banks.
This photo was taken in my village Simari in Madhubani district, Bihar. The puja was done in the village pond and the temple can be seen in the background.
The Qutb complex is considered to be the first foundation of Delhi. On the ruins of Delhi's first mosque - built after the Muslim conquest of the city (around 1200).
The portico of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque framing the courtyard consists of columns/pillars from destroyed Hindu and Jain temples.
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Der Qutb-Komplex wird als erste Stadtgründung Dehlis gezählt. Gelände auf den Ruinen der ersten – nach der muslimischen Eroberung der Stadt erbauten – Moschee Delhis (um 1200).
Der die Hoffläche rahmende Säulengang der Quwwat-ul-Islam-Moschee besteht aus Säulen/Pfeilern von zerstörten Hindu- und Jain-Tempeln.