The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.

Hijras also identify with Shiva, a central, sexually ambivalent figure in Hinduism, who combines in himself, as do the hijras, both eroticism and asceticism.

The Shiva Samhitadefines the yogi patel as someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body, and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad text distinguishes two kinds of yogis: those who pierce through the " sun " ( surya ) by means of the various yogic techniques and those who access the door of the central conduit ( sushumna-nadi ) and drink the nectar.

The name of the central lingam was the name of the king himself, combined with the suffix-esvara, which designated Shiva.

During the restoration, the Bayon was made a temple to Shiva, and its central 3. 6 meter tall statue of the Buddha was cast to the bottom of a nearby well.

Shiva and Vishnu are regarded as Mahādevas (" great gods " ) due to their central positions in worship and scriptures.

After worshipping a Shiva Linga on the banks of the Narmada, in the more central Yadu region, Ravana was captured and held under the control of King Kartavirya Arjuna, one of the greatest Yadu kings.

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 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.

The niche image carved on the south wall is an ensemble of divinities assembled around the central figures of Shiva and Parvati shown getting married.

The central towers all bear images of the Hindu god Shiva.

The inscription on its stele ( classified K. 826 ) says that in 881 King Indravarman I dedicated the temple to the god Shiva and consecrated its central religious image, a lingam whose name Sri Indresvara was a combination of the king's own and the suffix "- esvara " which stood for Shiva (" Iśvara ").

The southern tower is dedicated to Brahma, the central to Shiva, the northern to Vishnu.

* " Padaleeshwarar " is a Saiva ( Shiva ) Hindu temple in " Thiruppadirippuliyur " (" Padaliputhiram " in the Samanas period ) in central Cuddalore.

The central prang is topped with a seven-pronged trident, referred to by many sources as the " Trident of Shiva ".

It has been inferred that one of the bas reliefs in this stretch, the central figure, unrecognizably damaged, could be that of Shiva as an ascetic, similar to the bas relief seen in Angkor Wat temple.

After worshiping this guardian deity, the devotee proceeds towards the front of the central shrine and worships the Rishabha, the bull ( mount of lord Shiva ) outside the central shrine facing the lord.

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Although the Basic Law states that the Macau SAR government may " when necessary " ask the central government to allow the garrison to assist in maintaining public order or disaster relief, Chief Executive Ho has said that, in keeping with the Basic Law the garrison will play no role in internal security.

Morphine has long been known to act on receptors expressed on cells of the central nervous system resulting in pain relief and analgesia.

** East Pakistan leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.

Central Alarmers ( Station 155 ) is a private organization that provides fireground rehab support to firefighters ( personal relief stations and refreshments ) during large or prolonged response incidents in the central and eastern regions of the county.

" In addition, the spread of Sleeping Sickness across central Africa is attributed to the movements of Stanley's enormous baggage train and the Emin Pasha relief expedition.

The Gorgon was placed at the highest point and central of the relief on the Parthenon.

In 2000, Bono, lead singer with Irish band U2, played a central role in campaigning for debt relief for African nations in the Jubilee 2000 campaign.

The front of the church is Renaissance-style, in the central relief, Saint Dominic and Hippolytus of Rome are holding up the church.

In the central relief, Pope Pius VI is depicted blessing the dying Poet.

Additionally, bulky substituents on the central carbon increase the rate of carbocation formation because of the relief of steric strain that occurs.

A breakdown in his health led him to resign his post on the committee in 1849, but subsequent recovery enabled him to take an active part in the working of the central relief committee instituted under Lord Derby, during the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861-1865.

" Poplarism " became a political term associated with large-scale municipal relief for the poor and needy, and also with local defiance of central government.

Tzu Chi's involvement in the People's Republic of China began in 1991, when it undertook relief operations after severe floods hit central and eastern China.

The central part of the Park is distinctive for the relief complex of Borovnik and Crni vrh, with the valley of Mala Močila and Velika Močila nearby.

Chadwick favoured a more centralised system of administration than that which was adopted, and he felt the Poor Law reform of 1834 should have provided for the management of poor law relief by salaried officers controlled from a central board, the boards of guardians acting merely as inspectors.

The village is built around a central " terp ", a man-made mound between 4 and 8 feet tall built to provide relief from the high tides of the sea before dykes were constructed around the 10th century.

Charity shops in the UK get mandatory 80 % relief on business rates on their premises, which is funded by central government ( not by local ratepayers ) and is one illustration of their support for the charity sector and the role of charity shops in raising funds for charities.

It has a location on the central western of Venezuela ( 363 km from Caracas-225 miles -, the country's capital city ), being a point of convergence of many of the major land routes and rail, characterized also by its street order and appropriate signage due to the location of the city with a relief almost completely flat, which facilitated the distribution of the urban grid and with the streets numbered in ascending numerical order, factors that help the foreign citizen and easily locate addresses.

The façade, in Gothic style, is characterized by a central rose window and relief portraying the four Evangelists.

The central character of the series, Sam is a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team and an owner and a bartender of Cheers.

In the 15th century, a new classicising style arose, and early Renaissance cassoni of central and northern Italy were carved and partly gilded, and given classical décor, with panels flanked by fluted corner pilasters, under friezes and cornices, or with sculptural panels in high or low relief.

Tellus is often identified as the central figure on the so-called Italia relief panel of the Ara Pacis, which is framed by bucrania ( ornamental ox heads ) and motifs of vegetative and animal fertility and abundance.

Most notable sculpture of classical Hindu-Buddhist era of Indonesia are the hundreds of meters of relief and hundreds of stone buddhas at the temple of Borobudur in central Java.