e-ISSN : 2347 - 9671, p- ISSN : 2349 - 0187 EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review Vol - 4, Issue- 2, February 2016 Inno Space (SJIF) Impact Factor : 5.509(Morocco) ISI Impact Factor : 1.259 (Dubai, UAE) AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW HINDU TEMPLES OUTSIDE INDIA Dr.R.B.Kokatanur1 1 Assistant Professor in History, Shri Shripadbodh Swamiji Govt. First Grade College, Mudalagi- Karnataka, India ABSTRACT n India, temples are a accepted sight, as our country has a actual top allotment of Hindus. IAbout alfresco India they are not so common. They do abide in about every country but still the affectionate of footfall one gets to see in the temples in India, abnormally during festivals, its boilerplate abroad to be apparent in the world. But, there are some temples alfresco India that are actual acclaimed and accepted for altered reasons, like grandeur, ancestry, architectonics etc. Read about them, bethink them and may be appointment them if you anytime appointment the corresponding country. With billions of followers, Hinduism is not alone belted to India but is accepted by the world. Advised as one of the oldest paths against allusive living, its aspect could be acquainted in its abundant history. One way to feel the absolute acceptation of this all-around admiration is to reflect aloft the admirable temples which accept been congenital above the world. Hindu temples are actual accurate barrio which accept been congenital based on the abstraction of Agam Shastra which has three capital capacity alleged the Shaiva, the Shaktha, and the Vaishnava.Across the apple places like Angkor Wat, Batu caves accept alert the mystics and seekers alike. Actuality is a few added temples advance above the apple that authority appropriate abode in Hindu culture. KEYWORDS: Angkor Wat Temple, Pashupatinath Temple, Sri Venkateswara Temple, Prambanan Temple , BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Mother Temple, Sun Temple, Munneswaram Temple, Dhakeshwari National Temple. INTRODUCTION ANGKOR WAT (Angkor, Cambodia) Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions, Angkor is one of the lots of important and has over 900 actor followers worldwide. Admitting a archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over lot of the Hindus reside in India there are abundant some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor numbers present in Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Archaeological Park contains the arresting charcoal of the Temple architectonics in India started about 2000 years altered capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the ago and apparent the alteration of Hinduism from the 15th century. They cover the acclaimed Temple of Angkor Vedic religion. The architectonics of Hindu temples has Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its acquired anytime aback consistent in a abundant array of endless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a styles. They are usually committed to one primary Hindu absolute programme to aegis this allegorical website and celestial and affection a murti (sacred image) of the deity. its surroundings. Angkor, in Cambodia’s arctic arena of Although it is not binding for a Hindu to appointment a Siem Reap, is one of the lots of important archaeological Hindu temple regularly, they play a basic role in Hindu sites of Southeast Asia. It extends over about 400 association and culture. aboveboard kilometres and consists of array of temples, www.epratrust.com Vol - 4, Issue- 2, February 2016 184 e-ISSN : 2347 - 9671, p- ISSN : 2349 - 0187 Dr.R.B.Kokatanur hydraulic structures (basins, dykes, reservoirs, canals) as capital temple can be apparent in its accomplished beauty. able-bodied as advice routes. For several centuries Angkor, The western coffer of Bagmati as well hosts the so alleged was the centre of the Khmer Kingdom. With absorbing Panch Deval (Five temples) complex, which already was a monuments, several altered age-old burghal affairs and angelic chantry but now serves a apartment for bankrupt abounding baptize reservoirs, the website is a altered old people. Abundant religious barrio are as well amidst absorption of actualization testifying to an aberrant on the eastern coffer of Bagmati, a lot of of them are civilization. Temples such as Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Preah adherent to Shiva. The majority of these barrio are baby Khan and Ta Prohm, exemplars of Khmer architecture, alone storey constructions fabricated from stone. From are carefully affiliated to their bounded ambience as able- the alfresco these barrio are reminding crypts, but in bodied as getting absorbed with allegorical significance. absoluteness these are sacral buildings, created for The architectonics and blueprint of the alternating capitals captivation the attribute of the celestial Shiva - lingam buck attestant to a top akin of amusing adjustment and baronial aural the Khmer Empire. Angkor is accordingly a (erect phallus). Lingams can be activate all over the aloft website allegorical cultural, religious and allegorical complex. Forth the appropriate coffer of Bagmati abundant values, as able-bodied as absolute top architectural, platforms for burial pyres are built. The cremations on archaeological and aesthetic significance. these platforms are a accepted activity. Usually tourists PASHUPATINATH TEMPLE accept the adventitious to see at atomic one amphitheater (Kathmandu, Nepal) cremation. The majority of religious rituals are culturally One of the lot of angelic Hindu temples of Nepal abnormal and even alarming for Westerners, but allegedly - Pashupatinath Temple is amidst on both banks of the a lot of culturally abnormal affair in Pashupatinath is Bagmati River on the eastern outskirts of Kathmandu. the specific that appears to that appears to that appears Pashupatinath is a lot of important temple committed to to that appears to smell of cremated bodies. Unlike any god Shiva. Every year this temple attracts hundreds of apprehension the that appears to that appears to that aged followers of Hinduism. They access actuality to appears to that appears to smell has annihilation in acquisition apartment for the endure several weeks of accepted with the that appears to that appears to that their lives, to accommodated death, be cremated on the appears to that appears to smell of corrupt flesh, but banks of the river and biking their endure adventure with rather reminds the that appears to that appears to that the amnion of the angelic river Bagmati, which afterwards appears to that appears to smell of clabber alloyed with meets the angelic river Ganges. Hinduists from every bend altered spices. Accession culturally abominable affair in of Nepal and India are accession actuality to die. It is Pashupatinath is the angel of bounded women abrasion believed that those who die in Pashupatinath Temple are clothes afterwards the river. The amnion of Bagmati reborn as a human, behindhand of any delinquency that accommodate beastly fat because of the ashes of cremated could aggravate their karma. The exact day of their afterlife Shiva followers and calmly ablution the clay from linen. It is predicted by astrologers of the temple. If you are is believed that this is how the soap was invented. As far as admiring to the places breadth the spirit of afterlife can Shiva is advised the angel of animals and all alive be felt, again accede Pashupatinath as your aboriginal organisms, monkeys and deers are abnormality all about destination. It is a temple with appropriate atmosphere the temple circuitous on both banks of Bagmati. Monkeys of death; afterlife is present in about every ritual and are actual generally unfriendly, they beg for food, snatch every bend of it. The capital temple of Pashupatinath is a things from absent-minded tourists and may even be architectonics with a applesauce roof and a aureate spire. dangerous. It is as well actual accepted to accommodated It is amidst on the Western coffer of Bagmati and is advised sadhus in Pahsupathinath. Sadhus are abnormality a masterpiece of Hindu architecture. It is a cubic abstinent yogis, who are aggravating to access liberation architectonics with four capital doors, all covered with from the aeon of afterlife and activation by meditating. argent sheets. The two-storied roof is fabricated from They accept actual altered actualization with specific chestnut and is covered with gold. This abundantly busy chicken paintings on their bodies. temple with board sculptures is believed to accomplish SRI VENKATESWARA TEMPLE, wishes appear true. One of the a lot of amazing decorations SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA of the temple is the huge aureate bronze of Nandi - Shiva’s The Architectonics of Sri Venkateswara Temple bull. Alone followers of Hinduism can access the capital started in 1978 if a baby accumulation of humans had a temple, but all the added barrio are accessible for eyes to physique a Hindu temple according to Vedic attempt foreigners to visit. From the Eastern coffer of the river the (Agama Sastras). They alleged this all-powerful website in www.epratrust.com Vol - 4, Issue- 2, February 2016 185 EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review Helensburgh because “it is said the gods consistently play accept to be completed afore the banty crowed, something breadth groves are, abreast rivers, mountains and springs she believed was impossible. But with the advice of genies and in towns with amusement -gardens” -Brihatsamhita. and his own bewitched powers, Bondowoso managed to According to the age-old attempt of Hindu temple complete 999 temples. Panicked, Jonggrang told the women construction, there are 5 requirements: of her apple to alpha anguish rice so that the banty would The proposed website for a Hindu Temple should be a deathwatch up and activate to crow. If Bondowoso heard abstinent land...a forest...ideally in an islandwith affluence this he was acutely aghast and berserk enraged. If he of baptize antecedent amidst in a bank line. It is cogent to activate out that Roro Jonggrang had fabricated the agenda that the Sri Venkateswara Temple website has roosters crow, he angry her into stone, The bronze of a met all of the 5 requirements.