LORD NARASIMHA OF KARPARA KSHETRA

The garbhagrihas are built around them. Its access is limited to priests. But in certain places the pedestals are built outside, and the archamurthis - presiding deities placed e n them are adored with redoubled fervor by one and all, perhaps due to easy visibility and instant accessibility. Strange to see some presiding deities are placed in the open-exposed to elements eternally. Stranger it is to see them installed amidst water, perhaps it is the strangest to hear and see them on the tree tops, or between branches. How curious! Doesn't this location seem incongruous?

Inscrutable are the ways of gods, and mysterious are the whims of mortals, who dream and install the deities in the open and amidst strange places, as exemplified by the installation of Mother Kali's image on a tree in Bengal. It is worshipped with all paraphernalia, as done to the deities in the temples, despite placed atop the trunk and surrounded by water moreover. In the down south too, here are some examples of the icons of worshipful deities installed on the braches of trees. 

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