Cult Of Siva
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Author | : Baṃśīdhara Biśvāḷa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Odisha (India) |
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The Scope Of This Work Is Much Wider Than What It Indicates By The Title `Cult Of Siva`. It Is A Comparative Study Of Buddhism, Vaishnavism And Saivism With Particulars Reference To Tribal And Folk Religious Behaviour. The Author Has Reputed Many Established Facts And Has Given New Interpretations To Saiv, Rudra, Indra, Amba, Durga, Jagannatha, Kalinga, Udra, Bedi Etc. In A Very Convincing Way.
Author | : Meykaṇṭatēvar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Śaiva Siddhānta |
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Author | : Subodh Kapoor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788177553260 |
Author | : David Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2003-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780521528658 |
This is a full account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which has become a popular symbol in the West for Hinduism and Eastern Mysticism. Siva is one of the two main gods of Hinduism, and his worshippers comprise half of all Hindus. Siva's Dance of Bliss is based on a remarkable Sanskrit poem written by Umapati Sivacarya, Saiva theologian and temple priest in Cidambaram, South India, in the fourteenth century. Starting with the bronze image of Nataraja, King of Dancers, thereafter the Cidambaram temple, its myth and its priests are viewed in the light of the poem. Umapati's Saiva theology is discussed in relation to his life and also in relation to Vedanta and yoga. The iconography and mythology of the Goddess and of other forms of Siva provide necessary perspective. Art from Cidambaram and neighbouring sites illuminates the text.
Author | : Subodh Kapoor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Don Handelman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997-06-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195355288 |
This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually absorbed in this game, which is recreated in innumerable stories, poems, paintings, and sculptural carvings. This notion of the god at play, arguee Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many idioms and modes, around the god. The book comprises three interlocking essays; the first presents the dice-game proper, in the light of the texts and visual depictions the authors have collected. The second and third chapters take up two mythic "sequels" to the game. Based on their analysis of these sequels, the authors argue that notions of "asceticism" so frequently associated with Siva, with Yoga, and with Hindu religion are, in fact, foreign to Hinduism's inherent logic as reflected in Siva's game of dice. They suggest an alternative reading of this set of practices and ideas, providing startling new insights into Hindu mythology and the major poetic texts from the classical Sanskrit tradition.
Author | : Veeravanallur Poomilingam Kanthimathinatha Pillai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Śaiva Siddhānta |
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Lessons in Civañāṉapōtam by Meykaṇṭatēvar, verse work on Śaiva Siddhānta
Author | : Hargrave Jennings |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3748182090 |
India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is pre-eminently the home of the worship of the Phallus-the Linga puja; it has been so for ages and remains so still. This adoration is said to be one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the Hindu religion, and there is scarcely a temple throughout the land which has not its Lingam, in many instances this symbol being the only form under which the deity of the sanctuary is worshipped.
Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120804913 |
One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, "The Rg Veda," evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time--Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas and the Puranas. Who is Siva? Who is this god whose being comprises and transcends everything? From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, the Great Yogi, the sum of all opposites, has been guardian of the absolute. By retelling and interweaving the many myths that keep Siva alive in India today, Kramrisch reveals the paradoxes in Siva's nature and thus in the nature of consciousness itself.
Author | : Swami Sivananda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Śaivism |
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