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gods and prominence is given here to the carlya worship 345 Its later meaning was explained by the commentatoi Abhay adet asūri a' an image of a deity or the shrine which was the abode of a ijannia +
In the period when Jainism and Buddhism were in ascendency the word tezya was applied to the wholc sacied cnclosulc containing a garden grovc or park and a shrine 27 Mahāvila, Buddha dad nany other religious ascetics are represented as halting or resting in these -huines Some of these shunes had definitely dichitectural value of a tcmplc cquipped with doors and hallet chear of a shinc id ulien' about the size of a man's hand and built of onc block of stone +48 The images were made of wood and some of the Jahhha iriages ucic equipped with iron mace as wc hanc secn in the case of Moggai pāni There was chill (sabha) attached to the shine which was besmcaicd with con-duns as we have seen We hear of the Punnabhadda shiinc of Camp, which was decorated with umbıclla standards sanghaia bells, flags peacoch feather whisk (Lomahattha) and railing Gaildıl, the inside lour was (Outed with cow-dung, walls were white-1 ashed, it boir palni impressions in icd gosīsa or dardara sandal-wood, it was beautiful with candana h an and on the doors were crected to anos with candanaghato decorations lhc floor was sprinkled with perfumed water and garlands weic hung, and it was odoious with flowers of finc colours, holiguru hunduuhha and ti nukha; it was haunted by actors, danccis, 10pc-walkers, wrestlers, boters, jesteis, ballard-singers, story-telleis, polc-dancers picture-show men, pipcis, luteplayers, and minstiels Many people came to worship this shrine 24
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Bhuto, il glitruuci US Filhluli RT! ( 11 troups all descubed as Icalul and ill-cutmz in Iuriin mithologi Bait is offered to them and a wisc man pay> 10vcicnce to them beloic going to bed Thicc types of Blūlas ale nicntioned in the Epic thc indifferent, the hostile and the kind All the night-wandering demor.uc Bhulas
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