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The Shiva Chalisa (Hindi: शिव चालीसा, literally Forty chaupais on Shiva) is a Hindi stotra dedicated to Hindu deity Shiva. [1] Adapted from the Shiva Purana , it consists of 40 (chalis) chaupais (verses) and recited daily or on special festivals like Maha Shivaratri by Shaivas , the worshippers of Shiva.
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.
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 ...
A chaupai is a quatrain verse of Indian poetry, especially medieval Hindi poetry, that uses a metre of four syllables.. Famous chaupais include those of poet-saint Tulsidas (used in his classical text Ramcharitamanas and poem Hanuman Chalisa) .
In Hinduism, Shiva is the supreme being regarded to perform the functions of creation, preservation, as well as the destruction of the universe. [1] Hindu texts describe the worship of Shiva and the establishment of temples and shrines throughout the Indian subcontinent, commonly in the aniconic form of a lingam .
Shiva is equated with Sat-Chit-Ananda, described as the screen on which Shakti is projected as the moving picture of the universe. Jivanmukta - one who is liberated while still physically alive, who abides in the blissful peace of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Videhamukta - one who is liberated after death through the continued repetition of "I am Self ...
Chalis or chalisa may refer to: The number forty in some South Asian languages including Hindi-Urdu The Chalisa famine that hit South Asia in 1783, which is 1840 in the Vikram Samvat calendar; A Hindu hymn of forty verses Shiva Chalisa; Hanuman Chalisa; Ganesha Chalisa; Stefanos Chalis (1796–1821), a chieftain in the Greek War of Independence
Shiva "Marte Hain" Ilaiyaraaja: Asha Bhosle "Meri Qadar Jani" S. Janaki: 1991 Prahaar: The Final Attack "Dhadkan Jara Rook Gayee Hain" Laxmikant–Pyarelal: Solo Patthar Ke Phool "Yaar Wai Wai, Yaar Wai Wai" Raamlaxman: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Poornima, Manhar Udhas: Aaj Ka Samson "Le Le Tu Pyaar, De De Tu Pyaar" Prem Gupta Kavita Krishnamurti ...