As you can see in many of the Shiva's picture, he wears naga wrapped around his neck.
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So is there any reason behind keeping that naga around his neck, or is that a vahan for lord Shiv just like lord Ganesha has Rat or like godess Mata Ji who has a Tiger.
I know that he is kn...
nah, I deleted and also wrote the delete reason, will surely edit that out with a clear explanation or I'll leave it for others to explain in a better way
While browsing Stack Overflow, I noticed that I lost a lot of reputation:
Is this serial downvoting? Will it be corrected by a rep-recalculation? How often are those done?
Here's a second instance:
When there's Ganesha Chaturthi going on, people say that we shouldn't look at the moon on the day of visarjan as its counted as a bad omen.
So why did he cursed the moon and why is that, we shouldn't look at the moon?
Sabarimala temple is a famous temple in South India which is located in the state Kerala. See the website1. Many people visit the temple every year during the pilgrim season. Swami Ayyappa is the deity here and anyone (except women between 10-50 age group) can visit the temple with 41 days vratha...
Can you folks up-vote my question. No bribing tho!
I was interested to show the community the kind of questions they need to be asking.
"Stick to actual, real, objective questions with concrete answers that a working professional or expert in this field might encounter as a part of their actual, real, job. "
Is there a single jiva associated with a single body? Or is it that many jivas are associated with a single body? But, Hinduism tells us that there is only one jiva to each body. If that really is the case, then observation tells us when a branch of a rose, or a banyan, or a pipal tree is cut and...