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Why I made this stub[edit]

I'm painfully aware that this note justifying this stub is longer than the stub. I also appreciate the intent of WP:DICT.

This article is necessary only because there were a few places that link here, that should not fall through to Incense of India. This article should be expanded to include,

Which incense is offered to what deity (when)
How and why it is done
Any other special linking I've missed

Some of what is now Incense of India#Dhupa should move here, and be expanded. It has, appropriately, an {Unreferenced section} banner. It needs some clean up, some cites, but most of all it needs to be here. It was originally, inappropriately, Incense of India#Incense in Modern Day India, but was a decent start at explaining dhupa. So, in part, this is a rescue without the {rescue}.

One could resonably think that this should be merged into any of homa, puja, or Incense of India (which last should be renamed anyway, as it sounds more like a mail-order outfit than a title), but this would undermine the key problem: many additional things should be able to link to an explaination of dhupa, but would fall between the cracks of these three, none of which should necessarily even include a right-sized explanation of dhupa.

Interestingly, the authors of dhuni felt the need to "See also" link to dhupa, but never mentioned dhupa in the text itself. I suspect this is an oversight awaiting further elaboration consonant with what's in Incense of India#Dhupa.

Fianlly, in searching Wikipedia for "Dhupa", one finds references to a female Bodhisattva, a plant, as well as a number of places where this topic might be usefully linked. This article should play a roll in that disambiguation.

Comments welcome,

-SM 11:51, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]