Apart from the struts in temple, erotic motifs are also fount in small panels attached to railings .They also occurs in the arched brackets of open verandha. The erotic motifs in temples of Nepal are the scenes in wood carving depicting a man making love affairs with woman, depicting sexual congress, showing sexual acrobatics, animal coition, coition between an animal with a women etc…
It is however significant those erotic scenes are connected with the Shiva temples because he is god of creation. One can see erotic scenes in Jaganath temple in front of hanuman dhoka palace the residence of malla Kings of Nepal. Gyaneswor mahadeva temple, pashupati Vashuki temple, Naxal Bhagawati bahal and manju dewal of Maruhiti Tole.
It is said that Tantrish and its philosophy, its monastic eroticism ritualism and license, made a deep impact in combination with sexual enjoyment resulted in the demoralization of religious and social life. The Maithun indicate meditation on the act of creation symbolize in the form of shiva and shakti. It is stated that creation results from the male and female. The erotic scenes in the temple come to one’s scenes the whole world of living beings is the offshoot of sexual creation. Tantric creed implies that an act of coition should be viewed and practiced as an act of creation with which every being is born for the sake of multiplying oneself.
In front of budhanilkantha , there is a special temple named “Rati” where one can see truth, virtue, reality and creature of living beings.
In Nepal , there is a unique and strange practice of paying homage and worshipping in the symbolic phallus of Lord Shiva.The beautiful and young married and unmarried girls worship and bow down touching their head in the symbolic phallus or penis to obeisance the God. The symbolic Phallus is called shiva Linga Nither the beautiful girls feels and shyness nor obsceness to do so. It is said that once lord shiva he himself committed sexual intercourse with the beautiful young wife of Rishis . At the same time the rishis with anger cursed to fell down in the ground Phallus of lord Shiva . Shiva Linga is the same phallus of lord Shiva fall down due to the course of Rishis along with the female sex organ of the wife of Rishis. Shiva linga is distinct image of the symbol of lord shiva ‘s phallus relaxing in the female sexual passage.
Shiva means Lord Shiva & Linga means his phallus or the male organ of generation. Similarly ‘ Guhya’ means vagina the female sexual organ and ‘Shwori’ means goddess. Therefore an idol of lord Shiva shaped like a phallus and an idol of Guheshowri ( Goddess Durga) like vagina the female sexual organ. the deepest part of the sexual passage of women.
Young male dove tees of guheshwori also worshiped and bow down and touching their head in symbolic female organ Or vagina of goddess guheshwori . in the main sanctum of the temple at the centre of the enclosure there is an oval shaped, slightly, elevated, cupola like gold platform and hole which is symbolic of a female organ. In the middle of plate form there is an opening always filled to the brime with water which is kept covered with silver kalash (holy water pot) as its lid. Male and female devotees worship this hole as symbolic of a female organ.
Kama dev is the god of sex and rati is goddess of sex. Kama deva creats lust infatuation and carnival desire who could enter the passion and fire of live in man’s body similarly Rati created in the body of woman when a man and women are united during sexual intercourse. In pashupati Nath are there is a beautiful image of kama deva the god of sex. The penis is also erect and standing position in the stone image of kama deva.
In Nepal there is a unique practice of acting symbolic sexual intercourse by the child less women with the stone image of Unmatta Bhairabh at get children. One can see the childless womens are touching her vagina in the penis of Unmatta Bhairabh . In stone image of Unamtta Bhairabh of pashupati area the penis is erected in standing position to make easy to insert the penis in the vagina of women who are interested to commit sexual intercourse with Unmatta Bhairabh to have child . The Unmatta Bhairabh is an aspect of lord Shiva.
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