Temple of Shiva

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THE TEMPLE OF SHIVA

This is a speech that will focus on Shiva temple in India and how other temples also are related to it . The speech will be more on the architectural design of this temple and why it holds a lot of people 's interest and receives many visitors from both India and other countries

As you all know that in the Hinduism community temples places for the pilgrimage in India . Here in India temples are regarded as the most important

, highly respected , most holy and the resting place of gods India being the central and the capital of the Hindu religion have a lot of temples that are all considered holy and are regarded as the resting places of their gods hence houses of praise ( HYPERLINK "http /www .warangal .nic .in /tourism /temple .htm http /www .warangal .nic .in /tourism /temple .htm

In India there are several places in which there a re pilgrimages sites and there are also different ways of in which the pilgrimage sites and temples are categorized in Hinduism . One of this concerns the four Dhamas or the abodes of gods at the four directional compass points of India . While there is no specific legend in the Indian History that would explains the grouping of these four sites together , these sites were each highly regarded by the time of the Mahabharata (500 BC , these four sites ca me to be grouped together by the of the early Puranas which was during the fourth century (4th AD ) and were only given further emphasis only on the ninth century when the great sage and scholar Sri Adi Sankara established monastic centers at them . The four Dhamas are in the east , the Krishna temple of Jaganath in Puri in the north the Vishnu temple in Badrinath , uttar Pradesh in the south , the Shiva temple Rameshvaran in Tamil Nadu :in the west , the Krishnna temple of Dwarka in Gujarat ( HYPERLINK "http /www .religiousportal .com /BhojeshwarTemple .html http /www .religiousportal .com /BhojeshwarTemple .html

Just has been seen above the position of these temples the main one to be analyzed today is the Shiva temple of Rameshvaran in tamil Nadu This temple that has continuously duped the world over and over for many years and people come from different part to come and see this temple

This temple has received a lot of fame , attention and holiness since it is here in India where the god Shiva is recorded to have manifested as a towering column of fire . Among India 's most ancient temples sites , they enshrine small pillars of stone , called lingas , which are worshipped as containing the creative power of Shiva . Unlike the other eleven Jyotir Linga sites , Rameshvaram has two sacred Lingas instead of just one . A legend from one of India 's great epics , the Ramayana , explains this unique condition . A demon named Ravana had stolen Sita , the wife of Lord Rama . Following a terrific battle on the island of...