It is the Naraka where people who harm holy people and devotees end up. It is full of cruel beasts, snakes, and insects. They go on tormenting the sinner until his period of suffering is over.
Ganesha Purana prescribes the use of only clay idols in Vinayaka Chaturthi Puja. Sanatana Dharma is very sensitive about nature and the ecosystem. Vinayaka Chaturthi idols are to be immersed after the Puja. So ideally it has to be a material soluble in water. You can imagine the situation if thousands of wooden or metal idols are immersed in water every year. Moreover, Veda says that the earth was originally made up of clay. Clay was the prime material at the time of creation. That is yet another reason for prescribing clay.
ऐं ओष्ठापिधाना नकुली क्लीं दन्तैः परिवृता पविः। सौः सर्वस्यै वाच ईशाना चारु मामिह वादयेत्॥ वद वद वाग्वादिनी स्वाहा॥ aim osht'haapidhaanaa nakulee kleem dantaih' parivri'taa pavih'. sauh' sarvasyai vaacha eeshaanaa chaaru maamiha vaadayet.. vada vada vaagvaadinee svaahaa......
ऐं ओष्ठापिधाना नकुली क्लीं दन्तैः परिवृता पविः।
सौः सर्वस्यै वाच ईशाना चारु मामिह वादयेत्॥
वद वद वाग्वादिनी स्वाहा॥
aim osht'haapidhaanaa nakulee kleem dantaih' parivri'taa pavih'.
sauh' sarvasyai vaacha eeshaanaa chaaru maamiha vaadayet..
vada vada vaagvaadinee svaahaa..
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