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A Pujari or an Archaka is a Hindu temple priest. [1] [2] A Purohita or Pandit officiates and performs rituals and ceremonies, and is usually linked to a specific family or, historically, a dynasty. [3] Traditionally, priests have predominantly come from the Brahmin varna, whose male members are designated for the function in the Hindu texts. [4 ...
Pūjari is a designation given to a Hindu temple priest who performs pūja. The word comes from the Sanskrit word "पूजा" meaning worship. They are responsible for performing temple rituals, including pūjā and aarti. Pujari are mainly drawn from the Hindu Brahmin and Billava [1] [2] [3]
According to Silparatna, a Hindu temple project would start with a Yajamana (patron), and include a Sthapaka (guru, spiritual guide and architect-priest), a Sthapati (architect) who would design the building, a Sutragrahin (surveyor), and many Vardhakins (workers, masons, painters, plasterers, overseers) and Taksakas (sculptors).
Pashupatinath Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Kathmandu. The temple is considered to be pre-Vedic in its origin [11] and according to Nepal Mahatmaya and Himvatkhanda of Skanda Purana, the deity here gained great fame as Pashupati. [12] Pashupatinath Temple's existence is recorded as early as 400 CE. [13] The ornamented pagoda houses the ...
Siva Sri Arumugam Paskarakurukkal (Kurukkal meaning priest) is a German-based Sri Lankan Tamil priest and the present main priest of the Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple in Hamm, the second largest Hindu temple in Europe.
The word is also used synonymously with the word pandit, which also means "priest". Tirtha purohita means the purohita who sit at the fords of the holy rivers or holy tanks and who have maintained the records of the forefathers of the Hindu family for thousands of years. Purohita can refer to a house priest. [2]
A Hindu priest traditionally comes from the Brahmin community. [39] [40] Priests are ordained and trained as well. There are two types of Hindu priests, pujaris (swamis, yogis, and gurus) and purohitas . A pujari performs rituals in a temple.
He encountered several religious experiences starting from his childhood, and later began his career, at age twenty, as a temple priest at the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple in Calcutta. The devotional temperament of Ramakrishna coupled with his intense religious practices at the temple premises led him to experience various spiritual visions. Soon ...