Jagatpita Brahma Mandir could be a Hindu temple settled at Pushkar within the Indian state of Rajasthan, near the sacred Pushkar Lake to which its legend has an indelible link. The temple is one among only a few existing temples dedicated to the Hindu creator-god Brahma in Republic of India and remains the foremost outstanding among them.
Although the current temple structure dates to the ordinal century, the temple is believed to be 2000 years recent. The temple is especially designed of marble and stone stabs. it's a definite red pinnacle (shikhara) and a hamsa bird motif. The temple sanctum sanctorum holds the central pictures of Brahma and his second consort Gayatri.
The temple is ruled by the mendicant (ascetic) sect profession.On Kartik Poornima, a pageant dedicated to Brahma is command once sizable amount of pilgrims visit the temple, once bathing within the sacred lake.
According to the Hindu scripture Padma Sanskrit literature, Brahma saw the jhantu Vajranabha (Vajranash in another version) attempting to kill his youngsters and harassing folks. He like a shot slew the demon together with his weapon, the lotus-flower. during this method, the lotus petals fell on the bottom at 3 places, making 3lakes: the Pushkar Lake or Jyeshta Pushkar (greatest or 1st Pushkar), the Madya Pushkar (middle Pushkar) Lake, and Kanishta Pushkar (lowest or youngest Pushkar) lake. once Brahma lessened to the planet, he named the placewherever the flower ("pushpa") fell from Brahma's hand ("kar") as "Pushkar".
Brahma then set to perform a yajna (fire-sacrifice) at the most Pushkar Lake. To perform his yajna peacefully while not being attacked by the demons, he created the hills round the Pushkar — Ratnagiri within the south, Nilgiriwithin the north, Sanchoora within the west and Suryagiri within the east — and positioned gods there to shieldthe yajna performance. However, whereas activity the yajna, his married woman Savitri (or Sarasvati in some versions) couldn't be gift at the selected time to perform the essential a part of the yajna as she was awaiting her companion goddesses Hindu deity, Hindu deity and Indrani. So Brahma married Gurjar girl, Gayatri and completed the yajna together with his new consort sitting beside him, holding the pot of amrita (elixir of life) on her head and giving ahuti (offering to the kill fire).
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