Satyanarayana Puja

For other uses, see Satyanarayan (disambiguation), Satyanarayana (disambiguation), and Satya Narayan (disambiguation).
Bengali religious print circa 1940 of Satyanarayana puja with devotees and priest around.

The Satyanarayana Puja is a puja (religious ritual worship) dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, who is also known as Satyanarayana.

The puja is described in the Skanda Purana,[1] a medieval era Sanskrit text.[2][3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world".[4]

  1. ^ Yadlapati, Madhuri M. (2013). Against Dogmatism: Dwelling in Faith and Doubt. University of Illinois Press. pp. 30–32.
  2. ^ Richard D. Mann (2011). The Rise of Mahāsena. BRILL. p. 187. ISBN 9789004218864.
  3. ^ Hans Bakker, ed. (2004). "Three Chapters of Saiva Material Added to the Earliest Known Recension of the Skanda Purana". Origin and Growth of the Purāṇic Text Corpus. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 1–3. ISBN 9788120820494.
  4. ^ Yadlapati 2013, p. 34.