09-24-2008, 07:04 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reg. Shrinath Ji, you are right and the guide is obviousely wrong! During the first decade of awrangzib coming to power, majority of important vigraha-s were removed from mathura area and smuggled into rajputana. I mentioned something similar somewhere:
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My relative has married a northern vaishya whose family worships shrInAth-ji of nAthadvAra. With their family I had visited a replica of that temple here in mlechChadesha. A brochure there clearly mentioned that Awrangzeb's attack lead to the image being moved to Chittor, which was a in Hindu control, but the the procession stopped close by and the idol was installed in nAthadvara.
bappA rAval was patron of the shaiva-s of both the pAshupata and kaula stream-s (gorAkSha etc). But ekaling was originally a pAshupata temple, one of the few surviving ones in the north.
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My relative has married a northern vaishya whose family worships shrInAth-ji of nAthadvAra. With their family I had visited a replica of that temple here in mlechChadesha. A brochure there clearly mentioned that Awrangzeb's attack lead to the image being moved to Chittor, which was a in Hindu control, but the the procession stopped close by and the idol was installed in nAthadvara.
bappA rAval was patron of the shaiva-s of both the pAshupata and kaula stream-s (gorAkSha etc). But ekaling was originally a pAshupata temple, one of the few surviving ones in the north.

