Such aspects of one god as male god ( Shaktiman ) and female energy ( Shakti ), working as a pair are often envisioned as male gods and their wives or consorts and provide many analogues between passive male ground and dynamic female energy.

Virtuoso jazz guitarist John McLaughlin spent several years in Madurai learning Carnatic music and incorporated it into many of his acts including Shakti which featured prominent Indian musicians.

Borrowing and integrating the highest forms from many different approaches, Kundalini Yoga can be understood as a tri-fold approach of Bhakti yoga for devotion, Shakti yoga for power, and Raja yoga for mental power and control.

Anu Shakti means atomic power in many Sanskrit based Indian languages.

There are Sahasranāma for many forms of God ( Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, Shakti, and others ).

According to Linga Puran, Bhimasankar temple in Bhimpur is around 100 km from Rayagada and around 30 km from Gunupur is one of the Jyotirling, situated at the western part of the holy Mahendragiri mountains and at the river bank of Mahendratanaya ( which is also believed as the Daakini area by many historian ), was excavated in 1974, having quadrangular Shakti around the Linga and decorated by a Upavita as per the puran.

The worship of Shakti involves many hidden meanings of mantras and coded passages.

Tantrics, including the Vajrayana, the Shaktas, and the Buddhists established many temples for tantra sadhana rituals and Shakti worship.

Birbhum has many Shakti Peethas such as Tarapith, Bakreshwar, Kankalitala, Fullara near Labhpur, Sainthia and Nalhati.

In 1998, India claimed to detonate a " hydrogen bomb " in its Operation Shakti tests (" Shakti I ", specifically ), though seismographic readings have led many non-Indian experts to conclude that this is unlikely, or at least it was unlikely to have been a success as claimed, because of its low yield ( claimed to be around 45 kt, though outside experts estimate it at around 30 kt, both extremely low for a successful thermonuclear detonation ).

The guests include Vivek's friend Anwar ( Shakti Kapoor ), Ramkishen's friend Preetam ( Satish Shah ), family friend Dharamraj ( Sadashiv Amrapurkar ) and many others.

Notably, many Saivites believe that Shakti is worshiped to reach Shiva, whom for Saktas is the impersonal Absolute.

Additionally, Ganesh and Skanda, for many Shaivites, would be aspects of Shakti and Shiva, respectively.

Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery.

These kami are regional and many shrines ( hokora ) have been built in their honour.

Nazareth is known as " the Arab capital of Israel "; the population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim ( 69 %) or Christian ( 30. 9 %).< ref >< p > In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.

Shintoism is the indigenous spirituality of the people of Japan with many roosters being found around Shinto shrines, with the rooster being associated with the sun goddess Amaterasu.

While many of the public shrines are elaborate structures, all are characteristic Japanese architectural styles of different periods depending on their age.

It is performed in many of the larger Shinto shrines and is characterized by slow, elegant, circular movements, by emphasis on the four directions and by the central use of torimono ( objects dancers carry in their hands ), especially the fan and bells.

An example of Sikhism's commitment to tolerance is the fact that the foundation stone of one of the most prominent shrines of the Sikhs — Darbar Sahib, Amritsar also known as the Golden Temple — was laid, not by the many eminent Sikh leaders or the 4th Sikh Guru Ramdas, who was the leader of the Sikhs at that time, but by a Sufi Muslim by the name of Sain Mian Mir.

Also, increasingly, many roadside shrines may be seen for deceased relatives who died in car accidents or were killed on that spot, sometimes financed by the state or province as these markers serve as potent reminders to drive cautiously in hazardous areas.

Inscriptions show followers in Gaul, Spain, Pannonia, Germany, Arabia, Asia Minor, Portugal and many shrines even in Britain.

It was considered a divinity of the Genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 AD: it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii.

Kagi Jinja, one of many Shinto shrines built in Taiwan.

Numerous basilicas are notable shrines, often even receiving significant pilgrimages, especially among the many that were built above a confessio or the burial place of a martyr – although this term now usually designates a space before the high altar that is sunk lower than the main floor level ( as in the case in St Peter's and St John Lateran in Rome ) and that offer more immediate access to the burial places below.

It was under the regency that Kamakura acquired many of its best and most prestigious temples and shrines, for example Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, and Zeniarai Benten Shrine.

In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or " houses of heaven " dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The Histories where sacred prostitution was a common practice.

Along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples dedicated to Inanna.

In the meantime the necessary organization of the inhabitants of this thickly populated district was in a measure supplied by grouping them round important shrines, especially that of Diana Tifatina, in connection with which a pagus Dianae existed, as we learn from many inscriptions ; a pagus Herculaneus is also known.

It appears in pottery decoration and is a motif of the Shrine of the Double Axes at the palace, as well as of many shrines throughout Crete and the Aegean.

They oversaw the administration of Buddhist temples ( ji ) and Shinto shrines ( sha ), many of which held fiefs.

It was not alone in the west, however, accompanied by many, scattered shrines and altars dedicated to Catherine, which existed throughout France and England.

Other shrines, such as St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire were the focus of generally local pilgrimage, many of which are only identified by brief mentions to them in various texts, rather than by physical evidence.

The dissolution and destruction of the monasteries and shrines was very unpopular in many areas.

While the ritual regarding hair has been discarded, boys who are aged three or five and girls who are aged three or seven are still dressed in kimono — many for the first time — for visits to shrines.

He studied Tantra in West Bengal and visited many Sufi shrines and masters.

Inari shrines typically have many torii because someone who has been successful in business often donates in gratitude a torii to Inari, kami of fertility and industry.

Kalinga ( modern Orissa / Osiaji ) was home to many Jains in the past.

In many parts of India and Pakistan, especially in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bengal, Orissa and many other states, rice is traditionally prepared or served with ghee ( including biryani ).

Oriya is one of the many official languages in India ; it is the official language of Orissa and the second official language of Jharkhand.

A huge population of saltwater crocodiles ( consisting of many large adults, including a 7-metre male ) is present within the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary of Orissa and they are known to be present in smaller numbers throughout the Indian and Bangladesh portions of the Sundarbans.

The most significant of Jagannath's many shrines is the temple at Puri, Orissa.

In 2011, September heavy down pour of rain caused flash flood and many mud dwellings in more than 25 villages above Hirakud Dam which were never got affected before ; both in Chhattisgarh and Orissa have melted down due to back water, which could not pass through the river.

* Sitalsasthi Carnival is being conducted in this month on the day of Jyeshta Suddha Sasthi in Orissa for many centuries.

During the glorious reign of Kapilendra deva, the first Suryavamsi Gajapati emperor, the boundary of the Kalinga empire ( Ancient Orissa ) stretched from river Ganges in North to Kaveri in South and from Amarkantak in West to Bay of Bengal ( Kalinga Sagara ) in east. This lake has disastering story regarding a quotation many people use it when they lost everything " Na kompa kolleru aiyindi " it meant that back in 50's many of the people of Telaprolu village head family's belongs to KAPU and REDDY's has invested and buyed lands near kolleru lake due to expansion of lake they lost all their properties its disastering period Reddy's of village laid them and provided support to them.

Monasteries of the Ramanandi sect are in many states such as Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh ( Shri Hathiramji Mutt at Tirumala and Tirupati ), the Nepal Valley and the Nepalese Tarai.

2009 – Orissa SOG Assistant Commandant PR Satapathy – On February 15, 2008, about 500 heavily armed Naxalites carried out simultaneous attacks on police at various locations in and around Bhubaneswar looting many weapons and killing several police personnel.

His grandfather, the late Pandit Jagannath Rath, was the Jyotish Ratna of Orissa and authored many books on Jyotisha.

Consequently Orissa was to remain a Hindu bastion for many centuries and this accounts for the very low percentage of Muslims in Orrisa even today, unlike Bengal, where the eastern part ( known today as Bangladesh ) has been totally Islamized, and the Western half of Bengal is undergoing the process of Islamization especially in the district of Murshidabad and the metropolis of Kolkata which abound in slums infested by local Muslims and those infiltrating from Eastern Bengal ( Bangladesh ).

Dhenkanal is home to the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, the only institute in Orissa for the study of journalism and mass communication ; many students come here from all over India to study.

The electricity generated here is supplied to many nearby towns including Visakhapatnam, Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh and, Koraput and Jeypore in Orissa.