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Shivlilamrut is a devotional poem composed by the Marathi poet-saint Shridhar Swami Nazarekar. [1] [2]It was composed in 1718 AD (Hindu calendar 1640). Shridhar Swami wrote it on the banks of the river Brahma Kamandalu in Baramati in the vicinity of the Kashi Vishveshwar temple.
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]
[7] [11] Parts of it are retold from Hindu Puranas, for the benefit of the common man, who had no access to Hindu texts of the time. [7] Compositions of the Dasam Granth include Jaap Sahib, Tav-Prasad Savaiye and Kabiyo Baach Benti Chaupai which are part of the Nitnem or daily prayers and also part of the Amrit Sanchar or initiation ceremony of ...
An old photograph of Shachidevi Mishra, mother of Rambhadracharya. Jagadguru Rambhadracharya was born to Pandit Shri Rajdev Mishra and Shrimati Shachidevi Mishra in a Saryupareen Brahmin family of the Vasishtha Gotra (lineage of the sage Vasishtha) in Shandikhurd village in the Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. [29]
The Śiva·sūtras, technically akṣara·samāmnāya, variously called māheśvarāṇi sūtrāṇi, pratyāhāra·sūtrāṇi, varṇa·samāmnāya, etc., refer to a set of fourteen aphorisms devised as an arrangement of the sounds of Sanskrit for the purposes of grammatical exposition as carried out by the grammarian Pāṇini in the Aṣṭādhyāyī.
The Brahmavaivarta Purana, along with Bhagavata Purana, have influenced performance arts and cultural celebrations in India, such as with Rasa Lila in Manipur above.. This text is mostly legends, worship, mythology and drama during the life of Radha and Krishna, with discussion of ethics, dharma, four stages of life and festivals embedded as part of the plot.
The Dāsbodha was written in 1654 by Samarth Ramdas Swāmi (1608-1681), a satguru, a Hindu saint from Maharashtra, in the local Marathi language.It is a comprehensive volume in verse form providing instructions on the religious life, presented in the format of a conversation between a Guru and disciple.
When Leela passed away, she was reborn as Mahishi. When her brother Mahishasura was slain by Durga, the she-buffalo divinity performed severe austerities to the creator deity Brahma, who granted her desired boon of only being capable of being slain by the son of Vishnu and Shiva.