GRAMA DEVATHAS

And a few take both, depending upon the nature of adorers. They are termed kshudradevatas but amongst them a few transcend all such low and ghastly practices. And are equated with higher celestials. And in consequence receive adoration from vegetarians and high caste people. Expediency drives these vegetarian devotees taking refuge in deities of the opposite camp.

The function of these deities is not uniform. A majority of them act as security guards stationed at the boundaries of human habitation to protect the people from external danger both from visible and invisible forces By their ghastly appearance, super abundant strength and hardened ferocity, they strike terror into the minds of intruders, why, their very name makes the antisocialist elements take to heels. The round the clock vigilance, they exercise not only assures the adorers easeful existence, but accelerates trouble free progress. By keeping guard of the place assigned, effectively and tenaciously. they with the public applause and adoration. 

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