By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In a typical Hindu temple, we do not find just one image. We find multiple images. For many people, unfamiliar with Hindu tradition,…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist
In a typical Hindu temple, we do not find just one image. We find multiple images. For many people, unfamiliar with Hindu tradition, this looks like polytheism. But for Hindus, these are various manifestations or expressions of the same divine principle. Broadly there are three categories of Hinduism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism, and so three categories of temples.
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