Sentence examples for devoted to the god from inspiring English sources
They were monotheists, devoted to the God of Israel.
Attempts were made to expel foreigners or to suppress foreign worship e.g., the suppression of the Bacchic mysteries (salvation cults devoted to the god Dionysus, or Bacchus) in Rome in 186 bc, or the numerous attempts to prohibit the worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis in Rome, beginning in 59 bc.
The temple also drew guests from places like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Massachusetts, who came because Sri Ranganatha is said to be the first temple in the country devoted to Sri Vaishnavaism, a strain of Hinduism that is devoted to the god Vishnu and his many incarnations and has its roots in southern India.
According to legend, Holika's nephew Prahlad was a young prince devoted to the god Vishnu.
But if he is a widely held fantasy, then the resources devoted to the God business are a great and fascinating mystery.
The movement encouraged a monotheistic belief in the god Shiva which, according to Kannada scholar H.S. Shiva Prakash, is a possible influence of the 63 Nayanmars (poets devoted to the god Shiva, 5th 10th century) of the Tamil-speaking region.
They also include offerings entirely devoted to the gods, none of which is touched again by the worshipper; these are sacrifices intended to avert the wrath of the gods or to express the worshipper's complete dependence upon them.
It is quite hard enough to carry even a change of clothing, which one is ready to devote to the gods of shipwreck on steep hills or when the wind is adverse.
This devotional movement, although reminiscent in some ways of the Veerashaiva movement of the 12th century (which produced Vachana poetry and taught devotion to the god Shiva), was in contrast intimately devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu as the supreme God.
Descendants of the royal family still control the trust that manages the temple, which is devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu.
From inscriptions on gold coins and on the Ashoka pillar in the fort at Allahabad, Samudra Gupta is shown to have been especially devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu.
