abhisheka
अभिषेक abhishekaThe ritual bathing or anointing of a murti or a person with water, milk and other substances; the act of consecration in puja and in diksha.
Where this term appears
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
There is abhisheka , the ritual bathing of the image in water, milk, and other substances.
- What is Puja? Worship
Achamana , water to sip, a purification. Snana , the bath, often poured over the image as abhisheka .
- The Lingam Explained Deities
The central act is abhisheka , the continuous bathing of the stone, water and milk and honey and curd poured over it in a slow stream, the offering running down into the channel of the base and out.
- Devipuram And The Open-Access Model Treatise
The principal temple, Sahasrakshi Meru Temple , was constructed between 1985 and 1994, with the Kumbha Abhisheka (consecration) ceremony in 1994.