Few temples of Lord Bhrama .. why so ?
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Despite Lord Brahma being one of the Trimurthi - the three major Gods of Hindu religion ( Other two being Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva ) , contrary to the hundreds and thousands of temples dedicated to the other Gods , Lord Brahma hardly has temples countable on fingers .
According to the hindu mythology , the reason for this is assumed to be because of a curse that prevents any hindu follower from worshiping lord Brahma . The story goes this way ....
In the ancient period all the saints assembled together to conduct a great fire sacrifice . There came the famous saint Narada . He asked the other saints to whom would the sacrificial result be bestowed ? Then started the argument on who among the Trimurthi was the greatest ? At last , Saint Bhrughu was directed to find out who among the three is the greatest .
The great saint Bhrughu first went to Lord Brahma . Brahma was Chit-chatting with his wife Goddess Saraswathy . He did not pay proper attention to Bhrughu . The angry Bhrugu said that though Brahma had four faces and eight eyes , he could not receive his guest with due respect .
So Brahma did not deserve the sacrificial result . Enraged Bhrughu cursed Brahma that he would never get offerings in the temples .
The story continues with Bhrughu visiting Lord Shiva and lord Vishnu . I will not mention it here , since its not much relevant to this hub .
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Yes your right ... There is one in Rajansthan .. its in Pushkar ... there are hardly ten temples of Brahma
Thanks for the story. It is a good lesson to be learnt here.
Cashmere, maybe people neglected Goddess Saraswathy's Temple because she made him got Bhrughu's curse!
I have not been to the Brahma Temple but look forward to visit there sometime.
Is it so??? i dint know abt tht.... nyway it was nice.... the story was xciting....bt it came to a sudden end....cant u just elaborate the story and give us some additional informations?
Myth is what i wld call it .. but i wonder ver u got the pics from (nice and clear) .. see U hav done some hard work on it ..
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cashmere Level 5 Commenter 2 years ago
Is that so? Mythology is always fun! I know of only one Brahma Temple in India the one in Rajasthan.
And you want to know something funny, the opposite hillock has a temple of Saraswati which is fairly neglected, so the priests have asked the custodians of the brahma temple to pay for upkeep of their god's wife's temple!!!!