pradakshina
प्रदक्षिणा pradakṣiṇāCircumambulation of a shrine or murti, keeping it on one's right; the body's way of honouring the sacred by orbiting it, walked around the garbhagriha as an act of puja.
Where this term appears
- What is Puja? Worship
Tambula , betel after the meal. Namaskara and pradakshina , salutation and circling.
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
It is the post from which the temple's banner flies on festival days, and by convention the clockwise circuit of the temple, the pradakshina , begins and ends here.
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
Around the sanctum runs the pradakshina-patha , the circumambulation path.
- The body of the city Treatise
Inside that lies the Nagar Pradakshina , the circumambulation of the city proper.