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Temple Trees – the Sthala Vriksha

Arijit Bose
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Lucknow: To fully understand the concept of a temple tree, we must understand the connection between forests, trees and worship in early times and how the concept of sacred groves has developed over the centuries. We know that in very early times in India, deities were first worshipped in the open, sometimes with stone or wood images. Hero stones were also quite popular in the worship of the common people. There is much evidence for the fact that many temples came up in locations long considered sacred with specific deities…

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