[Advaita-l] Locations of pañcāyatana śilās

[Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l]

Namaste,

I too am a Gujarati. I have got the same panchdevatA-s like Jaldhar bhai
has given description. I too got it from my Grandfather who inturn got it
from his grandfather :)

Not all devatA-s (deities) need to be made up of stones or worshipped as
stones e.g. SAligrAma as a roughly round stone.. Some say that out of
SAligrAma, a deity can be sculpted. Don't have any sources to give further
info. I am an average Hindu.

Kind Regards

OM

Sujal Upadhyay

"To disconnect from the self and to become Aware of anything else is
nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi

He who has faith has all
He who lacks faith, lacks all
It is the faith int he name of lord that works wonders
FAITH IS LIFE, DOUBT IS DEATH - Sri Ramakrishna


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Mikael Aktor via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear Jaldhar H. Vyas Ji,
>
> Thank you for this information. It is interesting that you are from
> Gujarat, because my impression is that today the pañcāyatana pūjā is more
> practiced in the South than in the North. And - as you say - normally the
> pūjā including the five stones or mūrtis are inherited from a father or
> grandfather. It seems very much to be a family ritual.
>
> Best wishes,
> mikael
>
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> Emne: Re: [Advaita-l] Locations of pañcāyatana śilās
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Mikael Aktor via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> >
> > I am doing research on the pañcāyatana pūjā. As part of this I want to
> > know the exact locations where the five śilās are collected. Some of
> > these places are well described, but I have three doubts:
> >
> > 1) The exact location where the red śoṇabhadra śilās are collected. It
> > is described as the area in Bihar where the Son River flows into the
> > Gaṅgā, but is there a more precise description? A town or city?
>
> The Son river flows throught U.P. and Bihar (I think its source is even
> further south than that.) and meets the Ganga at Patna.  That would be the
> largest city.
>
> > 2) I have been told that the suvarṇamukhi śilā is collected from
> > Swarnamukhi River, Andhra Pradesh, near the town of Srikalahasti. Is
> > that correct?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > 3) The crystal / sphaṭika is said to originate from Vallam Town near
> > Thanjavur, but some say that it is no longer found there. Is that
> > correct, and if it is, where is the crystal collected now?
>
> Don't know about this one.  There is a sphatika in my puja but it probably
> came from somewhere in Gujarat (I'm Gujarati.)
>
> All the dharmashastras are in agreement that these particular
> shilas are to be used in Panchayatana puja but the concept of worshipping
> Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti, Ganesh and Surya together is widespread even
> amongst those who don't have all five.  For instance in my puja I have
> the Banalinga and Shaligram but a panchaloha murti for Ganesh Bhagavan, a
> silver coin inscribed with the image of Shri devi for Mataji, and the
> aforementioned sphatika for Surya Bhagavan.  All these were inherited from
> my grandfather.
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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