mandir
मन्दिर mandiraA 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.