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A garbhagriha (Sanskrit: गर्भगृह, romanized: Garbhagṛha) is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, what may be called the "holy of holies" or "sanctum sanctorum". The term garbhagriha (literally, "womb chamber") comes from the Sanskrit words garbha for womb and griha for house.
Devotees taking darshana of the god Vishnu in the inner sanctum of the Chennakeshava Temple, Belur. In Indian religions , a darshan ( Sanskrit : दर्शन, IAST : darśana ; lit. 'showing, appearance, [ 1 ] view, sight') or darshanam is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person.
Parikrama paths are present through which worshipers move in a clockwise direction, starting at the sanctuary doorway and moving inward toward the inner sanctum where the deity is enshrined. This represents translation of the spiritual concept of transition through levels in life into bodily movements by the worshipers as they move inwardly ...
Endingless variants of the term, adyt or adyte (plural: adites, addittes, adyts) are found in English as early as the late 16th century. By the early 19th century, the term acquired a figurative meaning, referring to the innermost parts of any structure or of the human psyche.
In the Hindu temple, the prakaram is the temple compound around the sanctum. Typically a Hindu temple [1] prayer hall is generally built in front of the temple's sanctum sanctorum (garbhagriha). [2] Usually large Hindu temples have one or more prakarams. [3] The Prakaram acts as circumambulatory passage to the devotees to come around the sanctum.
Sanctum sanctorum of Airavatesvara Temple, India. The Latin phrase sanctum sanctorum is a translation of the Hebrew term קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים (Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm), literally meaning Holy of Holies, which generally refers in Latin texts to the holiest place of the Ancient Israelites, inside the Tabernacle and later inside the Temple in Jerusalem, but the term also has ...
It is in this inner shrine that devotees seek darśana (seeing and being seen by the auspicious sight of the divine) [144] and offer prayers. Devotees may or may not be able to personally present their offerings at the feet of the deity. In most large Indian temples, only the pujaris (priest) are allowed to enter the main sanctum. [145]
Sanctuary marker (S) at Holyrood Abbey, Royal Mile, Edinburgh Ajax the Younger violates Cassandra's sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE. A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine, protected by ecclesiastical immunity.