The Shiva Pashupati, seal with the seated Shiva figure termed Pashupati

Impression made by Shiva Pashupati, seal

The Shiva Pashupati seal.

Pashupati ( ), " Lord of all animals ", is an epithet of the Hindu god Shiva.

The Shiva Pashupati, seal with the seated Shiva figure termed Pashupati

Impression made by Shiva Pashupati, seal

File: Shiva Pashupati. jpg | This seal of a Pashupati ( Lord of Animals ) from the Mohenjo-Daro archaeological site, ( 2500-1900 BC ) is remarkably similar to the antlered figure of plate A.

Shiva has the epithet Pashupati meaning the " Lord of cattle ".

The discoverer of the seal, Sir John Marshall, and others have claimed that this figure is a prototype of Shiva.

The Lanchana ( royal seal ) of his reign was a skull with a crescent moon called chandrakapala, the symbol of Shiva.

The discoverer of the seal, Sir John Marshall, and others have claimed that this figure is a prototype of Shiva, and have described the figure as having three faces, seated in a " yoga posture " with the knees out and feet joined.

A famous tympanum from Banteay Srei depicts Shiva sitting on Mount Kailasa with his consort, while the demon king Ravana shakes the mountain from below.

In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.

Shiva likewise pairs with Parvati who later is represented through a number of Avatars ( incarnations ): Sati and the warrior figures, Durga and Kali.

Though Hinduism is commonly represented by anthropomorphic religious images, aniconism is equally represented with such abstract symbols of God such as the Shiva linga and the saligrama.

The final stage is Samādhi — Union with the All, it is considered to be the utmost level of awareness that one could possibly achieve, according to Hindu mythology, one of their main three deities, Shiva, had mastered this and thus was bestowed upon with stupendous power and control.

In particular the Shiva Sutras, an auxiliary text to the Ashtadhyayi, introduces what can be considered a list of the phonemes of the Sanskrit language, with a notational system for them that is used throughout the main text, which deals with matters of morphology, syntax and semantics.

* Saul Williams mentions Biko along with other notable figures such as Buddha, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, Shiva in the song " Coded Language ".

The names of Shiva temples can end with the suffix eshwara meaning " Lord of ".

Shiva is usually shown with four arms holding a trident and a small drum among other emblems that symbolise objects worshiped independently of the divine image with which they are associated.

Any male icon portrayed in this way is Shiva although a female icon may sometimes be portrayed with these attributes as Shiva's consort, Parvati.

The sculpture is usually made in bronze, with Shiva dancing in an aureole of flames, lifting his left leg ( or in rare cases, the right leg ) and balancing over a demon or dwarf ( Apasmara ) who symbolizes ignorance.

A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with quotations from Fritjof Capra: " Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes.

Lord Shiva pleased with the rishi appeared as Triambaka and brought along the river Ganga.

Brightling's company is developing a highly contagious strain of the Ebola virus, called " Shiva ," with the ability to kill every human being on the planet.

The accounts of the emergence of life within the universe vary in description, but classically the god Brahma, from a Trimurti of three gods also including Vishnu and Shiva, is described as performing the act of creation, or more specifically of " propagating life within the universe " with the other two deities being responsible for preservation and destruction ( of the universe ) respectively.

Bharatanatyam proper is a solo dance, with two aspects, lasya, the graceful feminine lines and movements, and tandava Ananda Thandavam ( Tamil ) ( the dance of Shiva ), masculine aspect, which is identical to the Yin and Yang in the Chinese culture.

Brahmins associated naga with Shiva and with Vishnu, who rested on a 100 headed naga coiled around Shiva ’ s neck.

Parvati, when depicted alongside Shiva, generally appears with two arms, but when alone, she is shown having four or eight arms, and astride a tiger or lion.

Numerous figures are seen above Shiva: the god Vishnu, riding his mount Garuda, to his left ; a skeleton-figure ; and in a recess, Parvati's mount, a tiger is depicted.

Rev: Shiva, with a long trident in right hand, and the skin of a tiger in the left.

The verse is a description of Shiva and the use of a tiger skin as his seat.

The tiger is associated with the Hindu deities Shiva and Durga.

The Shiva half will have the matted locks of a yogic master piled high on his head and sometimes will wear a tiger skin, reserved for the most revered ascetics.

which is a description of Shiva, and the use of a tiger skin as a seat for Shiva.

This 14 < sup > th </ sup >- century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva ( on the left ) and Parvati | Uma ( on the right ).

At the top of the Hindu philosophy is the formless, undefined Brahman, from whom / which come the different forms and deities, the foremost of which is the Trimurti: Brahma ( the creator ), Vishnu ( the sustainer ) and Shiva ( the destroyer ), and their individual ' Shakti ' ( commonly defined as their wives, but also goddesses in their own right ): Saraswati the goddess of learning, Lakshmi the goddess of all forms of wealth, and Parvati ( also known as Durga, Shakti, Ambika ) the goddess of courage and power.

Chhinnamasta stands to the right of Shiva in the west.

The left panel depicts Yogishvara ( The Lord of Yoga ) and the right shows Nataraja ( Shiva as the Lord of Dance ).

The central Shiva shrine ( see 16 in plan below ) is a free-standing square cell with four entrances, located in the right section of the main hall.

The central Shiva relief Trimurti is located on the south wall and is flanked by Ardhanarisvara ( a half-man, half-woman representation of Shiva ) on its left and Gangadhara to its right, which denotes river Ganges's descent from Shiva's matted locks.

Gangadhara Shiva ( right ) with part of the Trimurti and a guardian ( left ).

Note the sculpture's left is female and the right is male, depicting Shiva and his consort Parvati.

The Gangadhara image to the right of the Trimurti, is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of Shiva and Parvati, the former bearing river Ganges as she descends from the heaven.

Parvati is carved to the left of Shiva with a coiffured hair dress, fully bedecked with ornaments and jewellery, also fully draped, with her right hand touching the head of a female attendant who carries Parvati's dress case.

The gods Brahma and Indra, with their mystic regalia and mounts, are shown to the right of Shiva ; Vishnu riding his mount Garuda, is shown to the left of Parvati.

This image, which is in height, has a head dress ( double-folded ) with two pleats draped towards the female head ( Parvati ) and the right side ( Shiva ) depicting curled hair and a crescent.

It is interpreted that Shiva is spearing him with the front right hand, as conjectured by the spear seen hanging without any hold.

The carvings are damaged substantially ; only one of Shiva ’ s four hands is fully seen and the right leg is missing.

Even though both her hands are damaged, it is inferred that her left hand clasped Shiva ’ s right hand as a mark of holy alliance.

The Shiva image displays a dance pose and had ten arms, but the first right and third left hands are missing.

The right side of his body is a white Shiva, and the left half of the body is a golden Shakti.

Written upon them in white are the letters ' Ham ' on the left petal, and ' ksham ' on the right petal, representing Shiva and Shakti, respectively.

Vishnu ( left half-blue ) and Shiva ( right half-white )

When the tears and the blood were still trickling from another eye, Kannappa decided to remove his second eye and placed one of his feet on the spot of the right eye of the Shiva Linga.