sthala
स्थल sthalaA sacred place or shrine-site; as in the Pancha Bhuta Sthalam, the 'five element places', or sthala-purana, the legend of a sacred site.
Where this term appears
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
Each has its own ancient and independent legend, its own sthala-purana .
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
That is Mahabharata -adjacent material developed in the Skanda Purana , in the Kedara Khanda , as local sthala tradition.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
Sahasranama verse 5, name 18: Ashtami chandra vibhraja dalika sthala shobhita - She whose forehead shines like the crescent moon of the eighth lunar day.
- The People's Veda Treatise
…e all in the south, almost every temple of any importance has its own sthala-purana , a "site Purana," a local text that tells the sacred legend of that exact spot: how the deity came to dwell there, what mirac…
- The Temple Is a Cosmos Treatise
…dition holds that the local powers already resident on the site — the sthala-devatā , the guardian of the field, the spirits of the place — must first be acknowledged and ritually enrolled into the new sacred o…