In temple rituals, “pujaris,” priests responsible ... worship Shiva with flowers or petals from the “kamala” or lotus flower, chrysanthemum, or marigold. Worshiping Shiva with 100 flowers ...

Bamkim Mishra travels 250 km to inaugurate Jagannath temple in Digha, West Bengal, amid political and religious controversies ...

The temple is a symbol of Dravidian architecture ... and to bathe in the pond with golden lotus flowers, believed to bestow success on those who enter. This photo was submitted to Your Shot ...

India is a land deeply rooted in its culture and religion. And, pujas are considered to be an important part of the culture.

A conch was blown by a priest to mark the temple’s opening and Modi placed a lotus flower in front of the black stone idol, decked in intricate gold ornaments and holding a golden bow and arrow.

The lotus flower, a great seductress who lives but three ... It ran like connective tissue through the 12th-century temple complex of age-blackened Buddhas, red earth and large-leaved verdure ...

With just a day to go before the much-anticipated inauguration of the Jagannath Temple in Digha, 3,003 lotus flowers and holy water from the Susunia Hills have been dispatched from Bankura district.

Others were adorned with lotus flowers and a geometric pattern ... ivories from the capitals of the great kingdoms in the First Temple period, such as Nimrud, the capital of Assyria, or Samaria ...

The Songyue Temple Pagoda is the oldest extant large ... the niches and doors pillars whose bases are in the shape of lotus flowers while their capitals are in the shape of pearls and lotus.

Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that a plant resembling the blue lotus is now marketed online as a soothing flower, one that can be smoked in a vape or infused in tea. There's just one problem ...