pushkarini
पुष्करिणी pushkariniThe sacred temple tank or stepped reservoir where pilgrims bathe before entering; the texts treat a water source as the first requirement of a temple site, and it makes the temple a tirtha in miniature.
Where this term appears
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
Most large temples have a tank, a pushkarini , a rectangle of still water where the pilgrim bathes before entering.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
To get there you climb, by road or on foot up the old stone steps, past the tank called the Swami Pushkarini and into a town that exists almost entirely to receive arrivals.
- The jewelled earring Treatise
With his discus, the Sudarshana Chakra , he dug a pool in the ground, and he filled it with the sweat of his devotion, and it was first called the Chakra-Pushkarini , the lotus-pool dug by the discus.