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Further
evidence becomes redundant. Its superfluity, if piled up only
confuses the reader of listener. The existence of the
Astamurthis of Siva is an indisputable fact and questioning any more
reflects one's insanity or mellowed cynicism, says a Vedantin.
Disbelief of this can be attributed to the morbidity of mind, or an
apparent sign of atheism. Leaving the doubting Thomases
groping in the pitch darkness of the maze, let us proceed to learn
and worship those Ashtamurthis installed and adored by the humanist
sages, no matter whether they are found in the immortal letters, or
sacroscant places fit for such exalted divinities. Mythologies
embody several finished and detailed accounts of these places and
their origins. The innumerable legends woven round them, and
benefits of their adoration, visitation to them are so many, and
that ardent theists hasten to them when once they listen or read the
glory of those places and the splendour of the indwelling power of
the archamurtis along with along with the parivaradevatas
installed around them.
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