The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s8.27

v2.c11.s8.27

¹⁷⁶ Is a symbol of re-generation. Those who pass through it are, as it were, born again. Crooke, op. cit. p. 322. Cf. the Muktidvāra in Satrunjaya, etc. The ring stones having "undulating surfaces" (Marshall, 'Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilisation', pp. 61-62, Pl. XIV. 6) may, more closely even than the others, be connected with the corrugated shape of the Āmalaka. Maurice, 'Indian Antiquities', 1793, also tells of the belief in a new birth of the soul by passing through holed stones. Self-bored stones are used as 'lucky stones'.