| Temples & Legends Of Bengal |
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the shelf along with some religious books and often with some other nick - knacks of the
household in the same room could be used for keeping the image of the household deity. The
deity could even be offered as bhog a little batasa (made of sugar), a piece of
cucumber or a banana if there is nothing else in the house. The deity is a family member
and shares the woes and happiness of th family. If anything wrong happens, the
family head rushes to Him and so also he does if there is anything good. It is one of the reasons why the usual type of Bengal
temples is the ordinaryDo-chala, Char-chala or At-chala or the same sort of mud-plastered
thatched structures where the Bengali villager lives. A lofty edifice of stones and bricks
as a temple is not as common as in other parts of India. Huts in Bengal villages where the
rainy season is rather a trying period have very slanting rounded roofs and there may be
one, two, four or eight layers of them according to the finances of the householder. When
a deity has to be established in a separate structure, the ordinary villager can
only think of a structure similar to his own house for sheltering the Lord. |
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