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The name Kāla appears in the Shiva Sahasranama, where it is translated by Ram Karan Sharma as "(the Supreme Lord of) Time". [256] Bhairava "terrible" or "frightful" [257] is a fierce form associated with annihilation. In contrast, the name Śaṇkara, "beneficent" [36] or "conferring happiness" [258] reflects his benign form.
Ekapada is the one-footed aspect of the Hindu god Shiva.This form is primarily found in South India and Orissa, but also occasionally in Rajasthan and Nepal.. The Ekapada is primarily represented in three iconographical forms.
Tantric goddess Bhairavi and her consort Shiva depicted as Kāpālika ascetics, sitting in a charnel ground. Painting by Payāg from a 17th-century manuscript (c. 1630–1635), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Bhairavi yantra. Bhairavi is also a title for a female adept in Kundalini, Tantra. A yogini is a student of Tantra or an aspirant.
Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. ' frightful '), or Kāla Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists.In Shaivism, he is a powerful manifestation, or avatar, of Shiva.
Shiva is the supreme God and performs all actions, of which destruction is only but one. Ergo, the Trimurti is a form of Shiva Himself for Shaivas. Shaivites believe that Shiva is the Supreme, who assumes various critical roles and assumes appropriate names and forms, and also stands transcending all these. [ 16 ]
In the Shiva Purana, Ishana is described as a form or aspect of Shiva. [19] [20] The Purana states that Ishana bestows knowledge and riches on those with intelligence, while curbing evil-doers. [21] Ishana is declared to be the form of Shiva presiding over the ear, speech, sound and ether as well as the "individual soul, the enjoyer of Prakriti ...
The union of Purusha (Shiva) and Prikriti (Shiva's energy, Shakti) generates the universe, an idea also manifested in the union of the Linga of Shiva and Yoni of Devi creating the cosmos. [57] [58] [59] The Mahabharata lauds this form as the source of creation. [46] Ardhanarishvara also suggests the element of Kama or Lust, which leads to ...
Sadasiva (Sanskrit: सदाशिव, Sadāśiva), is the Supreme Being in the Shaiva Siddhanta tradition of Hinduism.Sadasiva is the omnipotent, subtle, luminous absolute, the highest manifestation of Shiva.