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Twelve Flutes: The Sacred Origin Stories of India's Twelve Legendary Krishna-Radha Temples
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twelve temples. Twelve impossible stories. One god who kept finding his way home.
A prince abandons a stone he cannot dress properly - and wakes to find it has grown a face. A saint spends twenty-eight days locked in combat with an immortal bear, over a jewel he never stole. A carpenter vanishes before finishing his work, leaving behind a god with no hands - and a voice that says the imperfection was the point all along. A son throws a brick into the mud and asks God to wait.
From the prison cell where Krishna was born to the shoreline where his heart refused to burn, from a forest grove in Vrindavan to a fishing village on the Bay of Bengal, Twelve Flutes traces the extraordinary, often heartbreaking, always human stories behind twelve of India's most sacred Krishna-Radha temples - spanning not just Braj, but Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, and Maharashtra.
Inside, you'll find:
- The miracles, near-misses, and founders who gave up everything to build a home for God
- Devotees whose flawed, stubborn, uncomplicated love mattered more than perfect ritual ever did
- Honest treatment of contested legends - where sources disagree, this book says so, rather than quietly picking the more dramatic version
- Research drawn from the Bhagavata Purana, the Chaitanya Charitamrita, temple-specific scriptures, and generations of oral tradition
- Twelve original illustrations, one for each temple's origin story
Told with the pace and immersion of a novel - not a dry retelling, but a story you feel from the inside - this is the tale of how a god who was born in chains ended up waiting, patiently, in twelve different corners of a single country, for anyone willing to come looking.
A companion volume to Twelve Flames: The Story Behind the Twelve Jyotirlingas.
Perfect for readers of Hindu mythology, devotees planning a pilgrimage, students of Indian history and religion, and anyone who has ever wondered what it actually took to build the sacred places we visit today.
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