During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
Returning from our encounter with the python, we chose a
different path back, and came across this....
A stone idol of Ganesha, with a small stone container
(probably a lamp), with a feather lying by the side - doesn’t it look like the
feather might be a quill, and the container might hold ink, ready for the Lord
to pick it up and write? As the one who penned down the Mahabharata as Vyasa dictated it, the sight was appropriate, don’t you think?
The idol was installed outside what we were told, was an
ancient, tribal temple.
The temples were really shrines, built mostly with bamboo,
and in one case, bricks, and they were old, though they didn’t really look
ancient.
There wasn’t much to see or appreciate, especially since the
temples were closed.
The Ganesha idol was
surely the most interesting thing here, and that too by a quirk of nature,
which caused the feather to fall where it did!!!!
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Excellent. The Ganesha must be some 1200 years old. Though there is an ink pot and a quill nearby, I wonder if any material like paper was available to write on during those times. The tribal s did not deem it necessary to place the idol inside their Shrine!
ReplyDeleteThanks PNS, but i somehow felt that the Ganesha must have been a recent addition to the shrine, which is why it was placed outside.
DeleteAt which place is this temple located.
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Wow! Those temples look interesting. Have never seen such ones. Nice post Anu.
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Thanks Niranjan!
DeleteWonderful place to explore. Very true Ganesha idol real eye catcher.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what deities are inside the forest shrines. I also find it very interesting that all the shrines are laid out in a row. And, old or new, I like the Ganesha :-)
ReplyDeleteTemples looks weird but have a peaceful and clean atmosphere nearby.
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