- In the
Hindu tradition, a
murti (Sanskrit: मूर्ति, romanized:
mūrti, lit. 'form, embodiment, or
solid object') is a
devotional image, such as a statue...
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deity Ganesh. The
festival is
marked with the
installation of Ganesha's
murtis (devotional
representations of a deity)
privately in
homes and publicly...
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believed to
reside in the
murtis and are thus
subjects of
direct worship through sacred daily rituals. In many mandirs,
murtis are
adorned with clothes...
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please the five
natural elements. The
metal images of utsavar, or the
utsava murtis, are
usually placed in the
sanctum sanctorum during the day time of worship...
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Though most of the
murtis have four arms
holding weapons and
ornaments like the Sankha, Chakra, Gada and Padma, the
difference in the
murtis is only in the...
- both
intrinsic and
transcendent and
accessible through physical symbols (
murtis).
Through pran pratishtha,
devotees can
interact with the
divine in a personal...
- some form of Krishna, and all
temples since have such
murtis. In Vadtal, he
consecrated his own
murti known as
Harikrushna Maharaj. In the
temples of the...
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Jagir (Hindi transl. "The Estate"), also
known as Teen
Murti (Bengali transl. "The
Three Idols"), is a 1984
Indian dacoit western directed by
Pramod Chakravorty...
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legend and history, as
distinct from each
other as the
murtis in each temple. The form of each
murti of
Ganesha and his
trunk are
distinct from one another...
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temples in Singapore. A
characteristic of most
temples is the
presence of
murtis (or statues) of the
Hindu deity to whom the
temple is dedicated. They are...
