In south they may touch, wipe the water from shivalingam and adding sandal paste, kumkumam, and they may do archanaa doopam, deepam neivedyam, karpur niranjanam. Only abhishekam they should not do for siva lingam and saligramams. for other vighraham they maydo abhishekam also.
In Mallikarjuna Temple in Srisailam it is done by women - I performed that on Jan 20th . This temple is not in North India.In south they may touch, wipe the water from shivalingam and adding sandal paste, kumkumam, and they may do archanaa doopam, deepam neivedyam, karpur niranjanam. Only abhishekam they should not do for siva lingam and saligramams. for other vighraham they maydo abhishekam also.
In south they may touch, wipe the water from shivalingam and adding sandal paste, kumkumam, and they may do archanaa doopam, deepam neivedyam, karpur niranjanam. Only abhishekam they should not do for siva lingam and saligramams. for other vighraham they maydo abhishekam also.
Can we the Human being dictate the relationship between Jivatma and Paramatma?
This thread is in the Ritual section, so I will leave it at that.