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. Donations towards the building of a temple was one aspect of worship but more important was devotion to the deity or bhakti. The mythology involved in the creation of a particular deity and the ritual of its worship was often described in a text, one category of which were known as the Puranas. Part of the attempt was to relate multiple deities to a framework of cosmology, mythology and worship. Surya was one such deity. The silk-weavers may have chosen him because of his popularity in western India. Indian sources frequently associate sun-worship with Iran which
of park, garden or orchard, the Greek word itself having been borrowed from the Old Iranian pairi-daéza , ‘circumvallation, walled-in park’. 24 As for ‘Eden’ (not used at this point in the Vulgate or the Rheims/Douay Bible, but occurring in the Authorised Version and the Jerusalem Bible), it is a geographical name which at first meant simply ‘steppe’ or ‘plain’. 25