Abstract manifestations of the mother goddess Shakti
The three pindis (visible bottom) worshipped at theVaishno Devi Mandir, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Pindi are decked stones or tree stumps viewed in Hinduism as abstract manifestations of the mother goddessShakti. Most of the 20th-century goddess temples in Himachal Pradesh, India, enshrine a pindi.[1]