Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Brahma



There may be not temples for Brahma on this earth, but you find his icon in a few temples, and here in Hoysala art and architecture, he figures predominantly. You see him carrying a rosary, a pot of elixir, a lasso, certainly not the noose of death,  and a staff, in each of the four arms he has.



The first command from his own creator to Brahma was ‘meditate’. Does the rosary symbolically indicate this command to the first of the created kind?

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