Devanagari: प्राण प्रतिष्ठा ISO15919: prāṇa pratiṣṭhā also written as pran
A consecration ceremony: a 3-day Vedic ceremony to infuse life into a deity and divinize it, after which the Lord resides in the Deity in His personal form.
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Prior to this ceremony, a deity is considered a stone sculpture, but afterwards it is regarded as a personified form of God, and therefore, the needs of the Deity are identical to a living person.
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