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मन्दिर mandira

A Hindu temple, built around the inner sanctum (garbhagriha) that houses the deity's image.

Where this term appears

  • Konark: The Sun Temple Temples

    In front of the jagamohana sits a separate detached hall, the nata mandira (the dance hall), where temple performance once took place.

  • What is a Hindu Temple? Temples

    People also call it mandira or mandir , and in the Tamil south kovil .

  • What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials

    …ritual honouring of the deity in image and shrine; in the temple, the mandir , built around its inner sanctum where the devotee comes for darshan , the act of seeing and being seen by the divine; in the great f…

  • A walk down the ghats Treatise

    Then the palace-ghat of Man Mandir , with the great stone astronomical instruments of Raja Man Singh's Jantar Mantar on its roof, the observatory we have already climbed to, watching the same sky the pilgrims b…

  • The learned city Treatise

    It is the Bharat Mata Mandir , the temple of Mother India, and it enshrines no image of a deity at all.

  • The steps to the river Treatise

    On the roof of the Man Mandir ghat, the palace-ghat that Raja Man Singh of Amber raised in the seventeenth century, stand the great stone instruments of a Jantar Mantar , an astronomical observatory, its huge s…

  • A genre that was always bilingual Treatise

    The Sanskrit, in the Gorakhnāth Mandir edition held here, runs: ननु कापालिकप्रसंगकथनादेतेषां कापालिकमतमिति कैश्चिज्ज्ञायत इति, वस्तुतु नास्त्येवास्माकं मतं त्ववधूतमेव । परन्तु कापालिकमपि मतं नाथेनैव प्रकटीकृतम्…

  • Duhāī: eight books, counted Treatise

    Khaṇḍelvāl, Chaukhambā Surabhāratī Prakāśana of Gopal Mandir Lane, Vārāṇasī 221001, a numbered volume in a Sanskrit series, edition of 2016, priced at ₹625, its compiler's preface dated to Rāmanavamī 2013.

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