Brass Small Puja Diya/Pital Mini Diya (पीतल का छोटा दीया): The lamp, Deepak, or Diya is the vessel in which the flame evolves by keeping a cotton wick and oil or ghee. The traditional beacon is of complexion but moment essence lights are also in vogue in the ultramodern period. In ancient times, it was used for lighting, but after the invention of electricity, it’s now further used as an object of decoration. Its significance still remains in religious and social rituals. It’s a symbol of fire, one of the five rudiments. There’s also a mantra for lighting a Brass Small Puja Diya, which people recite on all auspicious occasions.
It’s a say in it that we laud you for the development of our intellect, O beacon of beautiful and benevolent, health and wealth. Normal cotton or thread wick one can use along with oil or ghee to light this beacon. It’s made of high-quality brass and easy to maintain. This system of lighting Pital Mini Diya is too ancient to emblematize flame, fire, and light. No one can confirm the date with certainty about it. In grottoes also it was with man. For visibility people set up in some big dark grottoes, without which it wasn’t possible to make a vision.
The history of Brass Small Puja Diya in India is genuinely further than 5000 times old when people lit it in slipup houses in Mohenjo- Daro. In the excavations, earthen lights were available there. In the apartments, niches, or ledges people made lights, hanging lights were there and for the convenience of movement, lights also people can see on the big gates of residences and construction sites on both sides of the road. Arched sculpted niches people constructed in these gates to house the lights.
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On special occasions, when the people light the lamps in a row, it has also another name Deepmala. This is especially what people do on the day of Deepawali. Deep mala is also what people do on other happy occasions like marriage etc.
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