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  2. Hanuman - Wikipedia

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    [31] [32] Commonly, Hanuman is not related to Shiva in Vaishnava traditions but is known as Shiva's avatar or sun in Shaiva traditions. [ 33 ] Other texts, such as those found in South India, present Hanuman as a being who is the union of Shiva and Vishnu, or associated with the origin of Ayyappa . [ 15 ]

  3. Shiva - Wikipedia

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    Apart from anthropomorphic images of Shiva, he is also represented in aniconic form of a lingam. [315] These are depicted in various designs. One common form is the shape of a vertical rounded column in the centre of a lipped, disk-shaped object, the yoni, symbolism for the goddess Shakti. [316]

  4. List of characters in Ramayana - Wikipedia

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    Hanuman is one of the central figures of the epic. He is a brahmachari (life long celibate) and one of the chiranjivis. In some versions of the epic, he is described as an avatar of Shiva. Hema: An apsara in Indra's court. When Mayasura visited Svarga, he saw and married her. They had two sons, Mayavi and Dundubhi, and a daughter named ...

  5. List of Naruto characters - Wikipedia

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    The eponymous character of the second series is Boruto Uzumaki, the son of Naruto and Hinata Hyuga who is assigned to Team Konohamaru also known as Team 7, which includes Sarada Uchiha, Sasuke and Sakura's daughter, Mitsuki, Orochimaru's artificially created son, and the group's leader Konohamaru, the Third Hokage's grandson whom Naruto ...

  6. Ardhanarishvara - Wikipedia

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    Ardhanarishvara conveys that Shiva and Shakti are one and the same, an interpretation also declared in inscriptions found along with Ardhanarishvara images in Java and the eastern Malay Archipelago. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] The Vishnudharmottara Purana also emphasizes the identity and sameness of the male Purusha and female Prakriti, manifested in the image ...

  7. Chiranjivi - Wikipedia

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    The term is a combination of chiram, or 'permanent', and jīvi, or 'lived'.It is similar to amaratva, which refers to true immortality.At the end of the last manvantara (age of Manu), an asura named Hayagriva attempted to become immortal by swallowing the sacred pages of the Vedas, as they escaped from the mouth of Brahma.

  8. Category:Naruto character images - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Naruto character images" The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total. A. File:Akatsuki (Naruto).jpg; G. File:Gaaraearlydesign.jpg;

  9. Panchamukha - Wikipedia

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    This exhausted him of all of his merit. in another legend, Brahma asserted his superiority over Shiva, his fifth head making a number of incendiary remarks against him. Shiva responded by manifesting his own panchamukha aspect, and sliced off Brahma's fifth head with his fingernail, or commanded his aspect of Bhairava to perform the deed. [13]