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Foot prints of Gods and Saints are worshipped through out India. We see them from Himalayas to Sivanoli Padam/ Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka even today. (I have given the links to my earlier articles on Foot prints at the end).
Dr R C Majumdar, historian and author of voluminous books on South East Asia, have given some interesting information about the foot prints of Lord Shiva and Vishnu in South East Asia.
Dr Majumdar says,
“The two oldest inscriptions of Funan are Vaishnavite in character. The first begins with an invocation to Vishnu and records the pious donations of Kula Prabhavati, the Chief Queen of Jaya Varman. She installed a golden image of god in Kurumbanagara, inhabited by Brahmanas and also built an ‘aaraama’ (a park with hermitage) with a tank and a dwelling house.
The next inscription records the consecration of a foot print of Vishnu called Chakra Tirtha Svamin by Guna Varman, probably a son of Jaya Varman and Kula Prabhavati.
The third inscription belonging to the reign of Rudravrman is too fragmentary to yield a complete sense. It begins with an invocation to Buddha and contains the eulogy of a Brahmana and his family.
Worship of Vishnu’s foot print is well known in India. But we also find mention of the foot print of Shiva being held equally sacred in Kambuja (Cambodia). We learn from a record that a pious Brahmana consecrated the representation of a foot of Shiva and a cistern for the ablution of god , on the top of a hillock. In the Saka year 526 (604 CE), the representation of the divine foot was surrounded by a brick wall. A fine image of Shiva with Parvati, seated on the left thigh of the god, was installed in Saka year 535 (613 CE).
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