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Flight of Deities -- Meenakshi Jain -- Indic Talks -- No. 61

Centre for Indic Studies
YouTube
Published on December 7, 2018

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGDF9J37Xo

In this #IndicTalk, Meenakshi Jain discusses the response
of temple patrons and priests to the attacks on Hindu
temples in the medieval period. She informs us that in
several instances, ascetic sects were militarized and
organized into akharas (martial arts/wrestling schools) to
protect Hinduism from iconoclastic fervour.

She also informs how Aurangzeb's policies prompted an
exodus of deities from Braj in 1669. As a result, the
deities of the Govindadeva, Gopinath, Madan Mohan, Radha
Vallabh and several other temples sought shelter in nearby
Rajasthan. In the case of South India, the burial of
bronzes occurred on a very large scale.

One of the most famous cases of buried bronzes was that of
the Pathur Nataraja where in the face of an impending
attack, temple officials had ceremoniously buried the
Nataraja bronze which was later recovered. On the whole,
this talk narrates how countless temples in North and South
India confronted the threat of Islamic Iconoclasm and
responded in ingenious ways to protect the deities.

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Video:

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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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