Ghatasthapana: What the Clay Pot and the Barley Beneath It Are Recording
The Instrument Before the IdolBefore the murti is consecrated, before the lamp is lit, before a single shloka is chanted, there is a clay pot filled with water and a patch of soil seeded with barley. This sequence is not accidental. Ghatasthapana, the establishing of the pot, is the ritual's…
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