Indian Temples & Iconography

View geographical location of this temple. Brahmagiri hills are a part of a charming countryside, in the wilderness of Maharastra surrounded...

View location map of this temple! Kasi-kshetrancha Kalabairava darsanam| Prayaga madhavam Trushtva Yega Bilvam Sivarpanam|| Maha-Smsana Nila...

Nageswaram Naganatham Nagabrana booshidham | Nataka-pradham Navarasa Pradham Jyodhir-Swaroopam Vandhe Namami || The Jy...

I do not reply to many forwards, I scarcely react to most of them, but there was one series i felt strongly towards...The doubt in the minds...

Rameshwaram – Temple for a cosmic bath It was a moment, a moment recorded in faith, not written on a tablet or a wall but in the mind’s of t...

View location map of this temple! Kshetragyam Kshetrapalancha Parartyaika prayojanam| vyomakesam Jyothir-swaroopam Beemasankaram Namamyaham|...

Click on the photo to enlarge it. Trithalam trigunadhaaram trinetram chatriyayudham | Trijanma-papasamharam Yega-vilvam Sivarpanam || Though...

Omkara Mantra Nilayam Mandhara Kusumapriyam | Prutharaga priyadharam Jyothir mayam sivam Namami || An island was once cut out by the sacred ...

Mahakalam Lavanyam Madhura Karunarasa varithim | Mahalingam Mangalaroopam Jyothir swaroopam sirasa namami|| Ujjain, a land of mystery and se...

Mahonnadham Mahakasam Mahodharam Mahabujam | Mahavaktram Mallika arjunam Jyothi-swaroopam Namosthuthe || Andhra Pradesh, a state baking in t...

The Shiva Purana goes: Somanadham Someswaram Samastha Gunaparagam | Gora-Padhaka thavagnim Jyothir-Swaroopam Namamyaham || Along the sandy c...

Jyotir Lingas, is a common household term, spoken by few with reverence and remembered by many in terms of geographical locations and associ...

Click on photo to enlarge Thiruvanaikkaval, Srirangam: We walked into the temple, the thick stone walls beat out the heat. The cool dark int...

An untouched world So far away In silent watery peace Does the Lord reside In constant meditation The only sound heard – OM The peace unreac...

The night sets in The clouds clear The ocean of stars Display their grandeur. The moon shies away Hides within her dark veil Leaving silence...

Shrimad akalanka paripurna shashikoti | shridhara manohara satapatakanta || palaya kupalaya bhavambudhi nimagnam | daityavarakala narasimha ...

Click the photo to see larger view Nature has its ways of bringing the Lord to us. Simple forms that bloom into flowers and seem to depict o...

The goddess who brings out Lord Shiva's more subdued quiet side is Kamakshi Amman, residing within her kumkum-smeared chamber seems to h...

Through the dance of Kali: Another Goddess who draws my attention to the wild fury of Lord Shiva is the Goddess Kali. This play is different...

Lord Shiva is known to be a silent deity, potent and distant and fairly unattainable. It’s through the various forms of the Goddess that the...