| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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SOMANATHA - LORD OF SOMA, THE
MOON GOD |
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portion of Saurashtra, the valleys of the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh, the Punjab,
the upper Doab, if not the whole of the Gangetic valley, and the habitable parts of
Rajputana, came to be inhabited by a race with a uniform culture. It is called by
scholars the Indus Valley civilization. It may more appropriately be called Proto-Indian
culture. Somanatha is the shrine of God
Shiva, popularly styled Mahadeva, the Great God. He was worshipped five thousand
years ago in the Indus Valley, not in the form of a phallus but as Pashupati, the lord of
the animal world. He is depicted as a nude deity on a seal found at Mohenjo-daro,
with horns and three faces. |
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