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2. Tevaram - Wikipedia

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   The texts about the Tevaram trio are hagiographies full of mythistory where devotion leads to miracles, objects float upstream in a river, cruel Jains of the Chola kingdom repeatedly scheme to hurt and kill peaceful Shaiva saints in the Pandya kingdom, the Shiva devotees survive and thrive through divine interventions, magic cures people's ...

3. Shiva Purana - Wikipedia

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   The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, and relationship between gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. [10] [2] [11] The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE. [12]

4. Thiruvasagam - Wikipedia

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   Thillai Nataraja temple dedicated to Nataraja – Shiva as the lord of dance. The temple is considered the centre of Shaivism . Chidambaram, the name of the city and the temple literally means "atmosphere of wisdom" or "clothed in thought", the temple architecture symbolizes the connection between the arts and spirituality, creative activity ...

5. Shiva - Wikipedia

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   Shiva is known as The Destroyer within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity which also includes Brahma and Vishnu. [7] [21] In the Shaivite tradition, Shiva is the Supreme Lord who creates, protects and transforms the universe.

6. Skanda Purana - Wikipedia

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   While the text is named after Skanda, he does not feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other Shiva-related Puranas. [3] The text has been an important historical record and influence on the Hindu traditions and rituals related to the war-god Skanda. [3] [4] The earliest text titled Skanda Purana likely existed by the 8th ...

7. Pañcānana - Wikipedia

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   The pañcānana (Sanskrit: पञ्चानन), also called the pañcabrahma, [1] are the five faces of Shiva corresponding to his five activities (pañcakṛtya): creation (sṛṣṭi), preservation (sthithi), destruction (saṃhāra), concealing grace (tirobhāva), and revealing grace (anugraha). [2]

8. Reh Inscription - Wikipedia

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   This, states Bivar, suggests that the local Hindus may have unearthed the Shiva linga with its inscription quite some time ago. [1] The cascade of interest and the antiquity of the Shiva linga led the temple authorities to formally embed and consecrate the linga in its sanctum. The inscription is no longer viewable.

9. Saptakoteshwar Temple - Wikipedia

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   A number of temples were destroyed during this period and the linga (symbol of Lord Shiva) at the Saptakoteshwar temple was dug up by the troops. [4] In 1367, the army of Vijayanagar King Harihararaya defeated the Bahmani Sultan's troops in Goa and managed to restore most of the temples to their former glory including that of Saptakoteshwar.