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...Almost all scholars on temple architecture converge on the point that the Hindu Temple evolved from the Vaidika Chiti as a response to the growing impact o ...Vishnudharmottara Purana, images should be installed  in forts, auspicious cities, markets , in villages of cowherds where there are no markets , in gardens

...s of Sanatana Dharma majorly revolves around temples. Temples are not just holy structures where people gather to worship a certain deity but are also cons ...g features of this text is its elaborate descriptions of Hindu Temples and Hindu Iconography. King Vajra requests Sage Markandeya to enumerate the features

...s. Stories referring to him are told and retold over and over again. Every Hindu, young and old, knows him, with Bis distinctive vina (a stringed musical in ...ich brought relief to the drought affected land. Many itinerant saints and holy men used to frequent the brahmin's house, so the child Narada got the oppor

...m ashramas in the forests to temples in the villages to purely educational cities such as Kashi and Kanchi, it was this Gurukula system that brought to us (i ...en to locate the Gurukula in a secluded place, in a garden and ensured the holy setting.<ref name=":0" /> The following are the different locations of Guru

...un. Manifestation, and not creation, is the word of science today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has been cherishing in his bosom for ages is goin ...Nor even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from l