Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Gaya stands an impressive temple

queen  Ahilya Bai of Indore built this temple in 1787 following her visit to gaya.this temple is known as vishnu pad temple.the foot print of Vishnu attracts thousands, and many Hindus offer rice balls[pinda] on the first anniversary of the deceased , for their happy afterlife.why do they do? in vayu purana, king of demons Bali controlled many world .. Vishnu incarnated as Vamana asked Mahabali, on behalf other gods as much space  as he would cover in three strides. mahabali was glad enough to give the same. the first covered the entire earth, the second atmosphere,the third covered heaven.Revealing himself as Vishnu, then sent the demons to hell, and he himself became master of three worlds. one of the steps has been traced on the ground in Gaya.  in one of the Upanishads there  is a mention of Vishnu's strides.[thretha nidhate padam]

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