Idol - Law Dictionary Search Results

Jagannath

A particular form of Vishnu or of Krishna whose chief idol and worship are at Puri in Orissa The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and

religious worship. In the case of a temple, it becomes a place of public religious worship when the idol is installed and consecrated and the pranaprathishta or vivification ceremony is performed. 'Until then, it is elementary knowledge

Person having interest

an inclusive one, and includes the suit brought by two or more trustees in the name of the idol, to recover possession of its property against a person holding it adversely to the trust from the purview

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Religious trust

for the benefit of the Sikh community and a private endowment created for the worship of a family idol in which the public are not interested, Mahant Ram Saroop Dasji v. S.P.Sahi, AIR 1959 SC 951 (954):

Prathista

ceremony performed on the completion of a house before it is inhabited; also, purification or re-consecration of an idol, house, or temple that has been polluted, Kapalavayi Kasi Raa Rao v. Kotta Venkataratnam, AIR 1947 PC 88.

Object held sacred

place of worship. Interpreted like that,it would mean that the section would apply only to cases where an idol in a temple is sought to be destroyed, damaged, or defiled. The words 'any object held sacred by

Pagoda

of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India Farther India China and Japan usually but not always devoted to idol worship

Mumbo Jumbo

by societies of the men one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose hence loosely any Negro idol fetish or bugaboo

Mawmet

A puppet a doll originally an idol because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed

Joss

A Chinese household divinity a Chinese idol

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