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Lepakshi is a village in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) east of Hindupur and approximately 120 km (75 mi) north of Bangalore.” ‘ Lepakshi is culturally and archaeologically significant as it is the location of shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Veerabhadra which were built during the Vijayanagara Kings’ period (1336–1646). The temples are the location of mural paintings of the Vijayanagara kings and Telugu inscriptions.
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Meenakshi is a Hindu goddess and tutelary deity of Madurai who is considered an avatar of the Goddess Parvati. She is the divine consort of Sundareswarar, a form of Shiva.
Meenakshi, Kamakshi and Visalakshi are considered the 3 Shakti forms of Goddess Parvati . Derived from the words mīna ‘fish’ and akṣī ‘eye’. She was earlier known by the Tamil name Taḍādakai ‘fish-eyed one’, mentioned in early historical account as a fierce, unmarried goddess which was later sanskritised as Meenaksh.
Various meanings of this appellation have been suggested, including that she was originally a goddess of the fisher-folk, that her eyes are “large and brilliant” like that of a fish, or that she has “long and slender” eyes shaped like the body of a fish. Another interpretation is that the name is based on the belief that the fish never close their eyes: the goddess similarly never stops watching over her devotees.
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*त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मन: |*
*काम: क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् || 21||*
tri-vidham—three types of; na::rakasya—to the hell; idam—this; dvāram—gates; nāśhanam—destruction; ātmanaḥ—self; kāmaḥ—lust; krodhaḥ—anger; tathā—and; lobhaḥ—greed; tasmāt—therefore; etat—these; trayam—three; tyajet—should abandon.
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