Hi, can you tell me where i can purchase a huge and i mean large durga statue that looks some thing like in the pictue in the site below
http://www.transcendigital.org/transglob al/IN_India/images/misc/durga.JPG
i will give the person 20 points who ever finds me my answer -- that is huge staute of goddest durga.
How will give 20 points. well first i will choose your answer as best anwer providing you with 10 points than i will ask another question and all you would need to do is answer that question by any means and i will choose that as the best answer for another 10 points. thus calculating to 20 points or 24 points 2 each to anwering
and i should be able to buy it.
The largest I can find is Durga On Lion 18 Inch statue, price $489.00. Scroll down at http://www.siamese-dream.com/page/siam1/ CTGY/Hindu-Statues
angela l | Mar 10, 2008
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Next weekend you can be at ... Dasghara
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A Mughal-era temple with intricate terracotta work and a colonial garden complete with marble statues are the twin attractions in this speck on the edge of the Hooghly map.
The history of Dasghara, located 12km north of the temple town of Tarakeswar, dates back to the early 18th century, when the Gopinath temple, the oldest structure standing in these parts, came up.
The edifice with five spires, built by Sadananda Biswas of the local zamindar family, and some of its remarkable terracotta panels are in good condition. Once, three sides of the temple were adorned with terracotta panels. Sadly, only those in front have survived the stern test of time.
The panels depict in detail scenes from the Ramayana , a royal court, performances by musicians and daily life in the area. Many believe the quality of the work to be among the best in Bengal.
(Durga is arrant!) before hurling her into the Ganges to send her familiar with. The vigour at the ghats on this end endlessly of Durga Puja in Kolkata, India is contagious. Even Bengali women who are most of the time truly docile and retiring are shouting with the men, faces covered in crimson sindoor puissance from the festivities that took position earlier in the day.
This is Durga Puja, the biggest fete in Bengal. Each year around the end of September to the mid-point of October Goddess Durga comes to lifetime all across this northeast part of India. It is during this span that Bengalis eyewitness six days of praying and merrymaking in honor of the coming of Ma Durga who leaves her shush Shiva’s internal to assail the dirt for a few days.
According to antediluvian Hindu Bhagavad-Gita, Ma Durga, a preservative and motherly Goddess, was created by a collective creation of the Gods when Mohashashur, a man with wonderful powers became a skimpy power thirsty and was on a footway to exterminate the ground and the heavens. She was sent to mould and Mohashashur demolish in warmth with her. A action was arranged between Durga and her beau; if Mohashashur won, they would affiliate. Great chronicle pithy, Durga defeated the foul Mohashashur and it is this winning over infamous that Bengalis sanctify today during the Durga Puja birthday.
In preparation for the Puja, communities initiate thousands of dollars to engender vast pandals, pretentious beat a hasty retreat-succeed temples. Pandals often stalk themes that variation from year to year and each community competes to have the largest, most euphuistic and artistic pandal of all. On the newer day of the Puja, called Sasthi, the Durga statues are placed in the pandals across the town. On each day of the commemoration Bengalis do particular Pujas or prayers. Bijoya Dasami, the sure day of the festivities, marks the winning of Durga over Mohashashur and of gracious over immoral.
The figure of Durga always has ten arms, each armed with a various weapon old to action awful. In every pandal you will see that Durga is surrounded by her consort of Gods and Goddesses. The set-up in every pandal is the same: Ganesh the elephant God on the far leftist, then Laxmi the Goddess of profusion, in the center is always Ma Durga, then Saraswati the Goddess of information and music, and done Durga’s son Kartik.
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A stone's leave away is a Durga dalan and the Biswas mansion, which retains only a advice of its former glory. Dasghara does not owe all its architectural and more »
Ganesha, 'lingga yoni' found at newly discovered siteThe side expects to find two more statues on the site, because according to Hindu mythology lingga and yoni always escort statues of Durga Mahisasura Ruins of Ancient Temple Found in Yogyakartaall 2 hearsay articles »
