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The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.
Hijras also identify with Shiva, a central, sexually ambivalent figure in Hinduism, who combines in himself, as do the hijras, both eroticism and asceticism.
The Shiva Samhitadefines the yogi patel as someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body, and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad text distinguishes two kinds of yogis: those who pierce through the " sun " ( surya ) by means of the various yogic techniques and those who access the door of the central conduit ( sushumna-nadi ) and drink the nectar.
The name of the central lingam was the name of the king himself, combined with the suffix-esvara, which designated Shiva.
During the restoration, the Bayon was made a temple to Shiva, and its central 3. 6 meter tall statue of the Buddha was cast to the bottom of a nearby well.
Shiva and Vishnu are regarded as Mahādevas (" great gods " ) due to their central positions in worship and scriptures.
After worshipping a Shiva Linga on the banks of the Narmada, in the more central Yadu region, Ravana was captured and held under the control of King Kartavirya Arjuna, one of the greatest Yadu kings.
The central Shiva relief Trimurti is located on the south wall and is flanked by Ardhanarisvara ( a half-man, half-woman representation of Shiva ) on its left and Gangadhara to its right, which denotes river Ganges's descent from Shiva's matted locks.
The Gangadhara image to the right of the Trimurti, is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of Shiva and Parvati, the former bearing river Ganges as she descends from the heaven.
The niche image carved on the south wall is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of Shiva and Parvati shown getting married.
The central towers all bear images of the Hindu god Shiva.
The inscription on its stele ( classified K. 826 ) says that in 881 King Indravarman I dedicated the temple to the god Shiva and consecrated its central religious image, a lingam whose name Sri Indresvara was a combination of the king's own and the suffix "- esvara " which stood for Shiva (" Iśvara ").
The southern tower is dedicated to Brahma, the central to Shiva, the northern to Vishnu.
* " Padaleeshwarar " is a Saiva ( Shiva ) Hindu temple in " Thiruppadirippuliyur " (" Padaliputhiram " in the Samanas period ) in central Cuddalore.
The central prang is topped with a seven-pronged trident, referred to by many sources as the " Trident of Shiva ".
It has been inferred that one of the bas reliefs in this stretch, the central figure, unrecognizably damaged, could be that of Shiva as an ascetic, similar to the bas relief seen in Angkor Wat temple.
After worshiping this guardian deity, the devotee proceeds towards the front of the central shrine and worships the Rishabha, the bull ( mount of lord Shiva ) outside the central shrine facing the lord.

central and shrine
The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).
Goscelin records that Mellitus ' shrine flanked that of Augustine, along with Laurence, in the eastern central chapel of the presbytery.
Both of these dominant cultures have a large and central shrine which still exists today, Ise Shrine in the South West and Izumo Taisha in the North East.
Her body was initially buried at Nunnaminster ( Winchester ), but it was translated in the 960s to a more central spot in Winchester, and again to a shrine in the 970s.
The priests carried a portable shrine as far as the central hall of Enryaku-ji, where a curse was laid on daijō-daijin Fujiwara Moromichi.
Traditionally the residence of the dedebaba was the Pir Evi ( The Saint's Home ) which was located in the shrine of Haji Bektash in the central Anatolian town of Hacıbektaş ( aka Solucakarahüyük ).
In June 2007, al-Sadr vowed to go ahead with a planned march to the devastated Askariyya shrine in central Iraq, al-Sadr said the march was aimed at bringing Shi ' is and Sunnis closer together and breaking down the barriers imposed by the Americans and Sunni religious extremists.
The central shrine is a free-standing square cell, with entrances on each of its sides.
The central door at the back of the portico leads to a damaged shrine.
The hall has 3 chambers at the back, the central one a shrine and the rest for priests ( both are plain rooms ).
The door of the central shrine has pilasters and a frieze, with the threshold having lion figures at the end.
Built on pillars set directly in the ground, the shrine building measures 10. 9 by 5. 5 meters and includes a raised floor, verandahs all the way around the building and a staircase leading to a single central doorway.
When a new shrine is built, it is built around the sacred central pole before the removal of the oi-ya, so that the central pole is never seen.
The central pole of the old shrine will then have a new oi-ya erected so that the shin-no-mihashira also remains unseen.
The shrine is somewhat famous around central Japan.
The central island houses a shrine to Benzaiten, goddess of fortune, modelled on Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa.
Early works of the school do not appear to use the label Śaivasiddhānta: one the earliest datable attestations of the label is probably that in the eighth-century Sanskrit inscription carved around the central shrine in the Kailasanatha temple in Kancheepuram.
It is home to the Kanda Myojin ( Shinto ) shrine, devoted to Taira no Masakado, who led a rebellion against the central government during the Heian period.
Friedman states that the smashing of the Ten Commandments by Moses when he beheld the worship of the golden calf, is really an attempt to cast into doubt the validity of Judah's central shrine, the Ark of the Covenant.
Temples were built in accordance to the rule of ancient Khmer architecture that dictated that a basic temple layout include a central shrine, a courtyard, an enclosing wall, and a moat.
Since 690, the presentation of these items to the Emperor by the priests at the shrine have been a central element of the imperial enthronement ceremony.
It followed the traditional cruciform plan for the central shrine.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, as travel became more common in Japan, the shrine became a central place of pilgrimage.

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A special template is furnished with the apparatus to enable marking a specimen for a central measuring area and the fabric extensions to the clamps ( see Fig. 2 ).
One of the central themes of Acts, indeed of the New Testament ( see also Great Commission ) is the universality of Christianity — the idea that Jesus's teachings were for all humanity — Jews and Gentiles alike.
The presence of shock waves, along with the compressibility effects of high-velocity ( see Reynolds number ) fluids, is the central difference between supersonic and subsonic aerodynamics problems.
" Even some complex " medical devices " ( see below ) can reasonably be deemed " biotechnology " depending on the degree to which such elements are central to their principle of operation.
For international banks, including the 55 member central banks of the Bank for International Settlements, the threshold is 8 % ( see the Basel Capital Accords ) of risk-adjusted assets, whereby certain assets ( such as government bonds ) are considered to have lower risk and are either partially or fully excluded from total assets for the purposes of calculating capital adequacy.
* Loanwords that have a low central vowel in their language of origin, such as llama, pasta, and pyjamas, as well as place names like Gaza, tend to have rather than ( which is the same as due to the father – bother merger, see below ); this also applies to older loans like drama or Apache.
Historically, Jews have considered it of central importance: traditionally, children began their study of the Torah with Leviticus, and the midrashic literature on Leviticus is among the longest and most detailed of midrashic literature ( see Bamberger 1981: 737 ).
While this applies immediately only to scalar-valued estimators, it can be extended to any measure of central tendency of a distribution: see median-unbiased estimators.
The graveyards in central London had no space, and fearing that he might have to be cremated, against his wishes, his widow appealed to his friends to see whether any of them knew of a church with space in its graveyard.
Since Rome is the preeminent episcopal see of the Church, it contains the central government of the church, including various agencies essential to administration.
The early Kyrgyz lived in the upper Yenisey River valley, central Siberia ( see Yenisei Kirghiz for details ).
There are four such longitudinal strips between the Mediterranean Sea and Syria: the coastal strip ( or the maritime plain ), western Lebanon, the central plateau, and eastern Lebanon ( see fig.
Alexander the Great combined both methods in his clashes with swarming Asiatic horseman, screening the central infantry core with slingers, archers and javelin men, before unleashing his cavalry to see off attackers.
Emphasizing this close relationship between discourse and knowledge, contemporary rhetoricians have been associated with a number of philosophical and social scientific theories that see language and discourse as central to, rather than in conflict with, knowledge-making ( see critical theory, post-structuralism, hermeneutics, dramatism, reflexivity ).
Economic liberals and pro-capitalist libertarians see private ownership of the means of production and the market exchange as natural entities or moral rights, which are central to their conceptions of freedom and liberty ; they thusly perceive public ownership of the means of production, cooperatives and economic planning as infringements upon liberty.
In the 20th century, however, many suburban areas began to see independence from the central city as an asset.
( see Halabja poison gas attack ) The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.
The central executive ( see executive system ) is, among other things, responsible for directing attention to relevant information, suppressing irrelevant information and inappropriate actions, and for coordinating cognitive processes when more than one task must be done at the same time.
* Palm, the central region of the front of the hand, see Hand # Human anatomy or metacarpus.
A distribution being " smoothed out " by summation, showing original Probability density function | density of distribution and three subsequent summations ; see Illustration of the central limit theorem for further details.
* Core, the central part of a galaxy, see Mass deficit
* Video of worm and beetle host in pet's water bowl ( see bottom of page ), submitted by R. Preston and collected by E. M. Preston from central California, USA.
One group of theologians ranging from Saint Augustine in the 5th century to Michael Goulder in the 20th century, see the Beatitudes as the central element of the Sermon.
In many developing and emerging market economies local governments or administrative units possess the legal authority to impose taxes, but the tax base is so weak and the dependence on central government subsidies so ingrained that no attempt is made to exercise that authority ( see Aristovnik, 2012 ).

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