Pindi (Hindu iconography)
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Abstract manifestations of the mother goddess Shakti
Pindi are decked stones or tree stumps viewed in Hinduism as abstract manifestations of the mother goddess Shakti. Most of the 20th-century goddess temples in Himachal Pradesh, India, enshrine a pindi.[1]
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- ISBN 8170174163, 8170174163
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