Sacred Facts · At a Glance
Mantra
Local folk invocations — no Sanskrit śloka; oral mantras in the regional vernacular
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Deities
No primary scriptures are catalogued for this entry yet. If you know of scriptural references we have missed, please contribute them.
A gram-devatā ("village deity") is the specific god of a specific village — not the pan-Indic god of scripture, but this god, in this place, protecting these people. Every Indian village has one. There are thousands. Most do not appear in textbooks. Their names and functions change every 50 kilometres. The officiating priest is usually not Brahmin — he is from the local caste, the work passing father to son. Worship is oral, ritual, and embodied, not textual. - Location: Sara
