The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.91

c20.91

In addition to the above gods the masses were worshipping a number of aboriginal deities. The worship of Mhasoba was current. Al Idrisi obviously refers to it when he says:—⁶⁵ ‘Others worship holy stones on which butter and oil is poured.’ Tree and serpent worship is mentioned by the same writer; the serpent worshippers, we are told, used to keep them in stables and feed them as well as they could. He further says:—‘Some acknowledge the intercessory powers of graven stones’ This may possibly refer to the belief in inscribed talismans or it may refer to cases like that of the famous Garuḍadhvaja erected at Vidiśā by the Greek ambassador Heliodorus, which was being worshipped as Khāmbābā at the time Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar discovered it.