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INTRODUCTION |
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with such wisdom, I started gleaming the appropriate materials from
the voluminous literature awaiting my touch. But here he problem of
selection assumed such proportion that I was caught up in a maze of
most intricate type. What should be the criteria, where to begin and
how to end confronted me in its ghastliness; for he oddity and
singularity attending on each temple history thoroughly subdued my
powers of discration. Each temple has a bizzare background shrouded
in mysticism and does not allow its elimination. Look ! How can I
bypass such divine kshetras the scenes of incomparable two some
miraculous acts of the Lord, like His turning sentinel to seep guard
a demon's palace; begging in the streets to appease the hunger of a
bhakta; bursting out from the linga to destroy the God of Death to
save a devotee; donning the midwife's dress to help a helpless
pregnant devotee in throes of severest type; sending millions honey
bees to put to rout the formidable army of a ruthless conqueror
trying to blow up the place of worship; forcing an iconoclast to
retreating at break neck speed with a single piercing look; acting
as messenger of love between the adorers; working as labourer to an
old lady in distress; punishing the European officers for
underrating the ritualistic prayer services; performing the funeral
obsequies of a devout king like son; etc. etc. etc.
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