How to use in-sentence of “shiva”:
+ Since Shiva is called Kāla – the eternal time, Kālī, his consort, also means “the Time” or “Controller of Time”.
+ As his atrocities became intolerable, the sage Narada requested Shiva to contain Darika.
+ In India, there are twelve places where this form of Shiva is worshiped.
+ The Tantric Shiva tradition ignored the mythologies and Puranas related to Shiva, and depending on the sub-school developed a variety of practices.
+ The theory and practice of Yoga, in different styles, has been a part of all major traditions of Hinduism, and Shiva has been the patron or spokesperson in numerous Hindu Yoga texts.
Example sentences of “shiva”:
+ The Trika sub-tradition developed a theology of triads involving Shiva, combined it with an ascetic lifestyle focusing on personal Shiva in the pursuit of monistic self liberation.
+ Others visit one of the Shiva temples or go on pilgrimage to Jyotirlingam shrines.
+ Arjuna, one of the five Pandavas, rise this river to worship lord Shiva.There is large Shiva temple named Kasi Viswanatha Temple on the side of this river.
+ Nataraja is the only form of Shiva worshipped in a human figure format.
+ Puranic scriptures contain occasional references to “ansh” – literally ‘portion, or avatars of Shiva‘, but the idea of Shiva avatars is not universally accepted in Saivism.
+ Murugan is considered as the son of Shiva and Parvathi, who was created to kill the Asuras and be the eternal protector of the Devas and other living beings.
+ In Shaivism pilgrimage tradition, twelve major temples of Shiva are called Jyotirlinga, which means “linga of light”, and these are located across India.
+ The consorts of Shiva are the source of his creative energy.
+ For example, historical records suggest the tantric Kapalikas co-existed with and shared many Vajrayana Buddhist rituals, engaged in esoteric practices that revered Shiva and Shakti wearing skulls, begged with empty skulls, used meat, alcohol, and sexuality as a part of ritual.
+ The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda, as an epithet for several Rigvedic deities, including Rudra.
+ The main deity Lord Shiva is said to be made with the “dharbha grass”, from which the temple got its name of Dharbaranyeshwarar Temple.
+ According to Wendy Doniger, the Puranic Shiva is a continuation of the Vedic Indra.
+ The characters are often identified with the HinduismHindu Gods Shiva and Parvati.
+ However, the mythological story tells that Shiva ordered Bherav to cut one of the heads of Brahma because Brahma lied, saying that he had found the finite source of the actually infinite Linga of light that was Shiva‘s manifestation.
+ The Trika sub-tradition developed a theology of triads involving Shiva, combined it with an ascetic lifestyle focusing on personal Shiva in the pursuit of monistic self liberation.
+ Others visit one of the Shiva temples or go on pilgrimage to Jyotirlingam shrines.
+ Arjuna, one of the five Pandavas, rise this river to worship lord Shiva.There is large Shiva temple named Kasi Viswanatha Temple on the side of this river.
More in-sentence examples of “shiva”:
+ The Padmashalis divided into two groups based on “Sampradaya”, being the ShaivismShaivas and the Vaishnavas and they worship both Shiva and Vishnu.
+ There were several impact events across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, such as the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, Boltysh crater in Ukraine, Silverpit crater in North Sea, and the Shiva crater offshore western India.
+ In the Mahabharata, Shiva is depicted as “the standard of invincibility, might, and terror”, as well as a figure of honor, delight, and brilliance.
+ Gods like Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva became more important in Hinduism.
+ While Vedic religion was conceived mainly in terms of sacrifice, it was during the Epic period that the concepts of tapas, yoga, and asceticism became more important, and the depiction of Shiva as an ascetic sitting in philosophical isolation reflects these later concepts.
+ The earliest iconic artworks of Shiva may be from Gandhara and northwest parts of ancient India.
+ The temple is one of the five such temples of Shiva in south India.
+ The Ardhanarisvara concept co-mingles god Shiva and goddess Shakti by presenting an icon that is half-man and half woman, a representation and theme of union found in many Hindu texts and temples.
+ Another major festival involving Shiva worship is Kartik Purnima, commemorating Shiva‘s victory on the demons Tripurasura.
+ Four of these triangles are orientated upright representing Shiva or the Masculine.
+ Sadr was the defense lawyer for Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters.
+ The Linga Purana mentions twenty-eight forms of Shiva which are sometimes seen as avatars, however such mention is unusual and the avatars of Shiva is relatively rare in Shaivism compared to the well emphasized concept of Vishnu avatars in Vaishnavism.
+ There is a Trimurti in the Hindu belief: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer.
+ When Lord Shiva came home, he wanted to come inside but the boy would not let him.
+ As one story goes, Shiva is enticed by the beauty and charm of Mohini, Vishnu’s female avatar, and procreates with her.
+ The monist Shiva literature posit absolute oneness, that is Shiva is within every man and woman, Shiva is within every living being, Shiva is present everywhere in the world including all non-living being, and there is no spiritual difference between life, matter, man and Shiva.
+ Followers of Shaivism, called “Shaivas”, revere Shiva as the Supreme Being.
+ The Shiva Purana has Balarama and Krishna.
+ Ammaiyar prayed to Lord Shiva asking for a boon that she may worship Lord Shiva as a disembodied wraith.
+ In this depiction, Shiva is portrayed with a sacred halo and a sacred thread.
+ Some Vaishnava literature reverentially link Shiva to characters in its mythologies.
+ Some communities organize special dance events, to mark Shiva as the lord of dance, with individual and group performances.
+ This figure was named by early excavators of Mohenjo-daro as “Pashupati an epithet of the later Hindu deities Shiva and Rudra.
+ Elements of this motif can include Shiva seated upon a deer-throne and surrounded by sages who are receiving his instruction.
+ The right image has been interpreted as Shiva with trident and bull.
+ The three gods who started creation: Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva are called Bhagwans.
+ However, both traditions are pluralistic and revere both Shiva and Vishnu, their texts do not show exclusivism, and Vaishnava texts such as the “Bhagavata Purana” while praising Krishna as the Ultimate Reality, also present Shiva and Shakti as a personalized form an equivalent to the same Ultimate Reality.
+ The term Shiva also connotes “liberation, final emancipation” and “the auspicious one”, this adjective sense of usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic layers of literature.
+ John Keay writes that “he may indeed be an early manifestation of Lord Shiva as Pashu-pati”, but a couple of his specialties of this figure does not match with Rudra.
+ Some Shaktism-related festivals revere Shiva along with the goddess considered primary and Supreme.
+ This iconographic form for depicting Shiva in Indian art is mostly from Tamil Nadu.
+ Ammaiyar prayed to Lord Shiva for another mango.
+ A seated Shiva holds an axe and deer in his hands.
+ Khandoba has been assimilated as a form of Shiva himself, in which case he is worshipped in the form of a lingam.
+ Some Shaivas worship in temples, but some practice yoga, striving to be one with Shiva within.
+ When it requires the world or universe to be destroyed, Shiva does it by the Tandava, and Lasya, which is graceful and delicate and expresses emotions on a gentle level and is considered the feminine dance attributed to the goddess Parvati.
+ This healing, nurturing, life-enabling aspect emerges in the Vedas as Rudra-Shiva, and in post-Vedic literature ultimately as Shiva who combines the destructive and constructive powers, the terrific and the gentle, as the ultimate recycler and rejuvenator of all existence.
+ In almost all the temples of Shiva, Shiva is shown in the form of a linga.
+ This Lord Shiva Temple eventually became famous for tourist attraction and added to the beauty of Jabalpur.
+ The worship of Shiva became popular in Central Asia through the Hephthalite Empire, and Kushan Empire.
+ The ancient Greek texts of the time of Alexander the Great call Shiva as “Indian Dionysus”, or alternatively call Dionysus as “”god of the Orient””.
+ The Shaivism theology is broadly grouped into two: the popular theology influenced by Shiva-Rudra in the Vedas, Epics and the Puranas; and the esoteric theology influenced by the Shiva and Shakti-related Tantra texts.
+ Chola frescoes adorn the wall of the temple and these frescoes depict Shiva in different poses.
+ The almost naturalistic giant lingam is distinguished by its prominent, bulbous head, and an anthropomorphic form of Shiva carved in high relief on the shaft.
+ Gorakhnath himself was a incarnation of Shiva with many powers and the knowledge of wide ranges of bewitchment, mesmerism, spells, spellbinding, sorcery.
+ The Padmashalis divided into two groups based on "Sampradaya", being the ShaivismShaivas and the Vaishnavas and they worship both Shiva and Vishnu.
+ There were several impact events across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, such as the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, Boltysh crater in Ukraine, Silverpit crater in North Sea, and the Shiva crater offshore western India.