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Parivaradevata means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: Wisdom Library: Elements of Hindu Iconograpy

In a svayampradhāna temple of Subrahmaṇya there are required to be set up eight parivāra-devatas, namely,

Yakṣendra,
Rākṣasendra,
Piśāchendra,
Bhūtarāṭ,
Gandharva,
Kinnara,
Daityanāyaka and
Dānavādhipa.

The figures of these are to be placed on the eight cardinal points of the prākāra; Yakṣendra being on the east, Rākṣasendra on the south-east and so on. These Parivāra-devatās are to be sculptured as having two or four arms and they should be of dark complexion and terrific look. If they have four arms, two of the hands are to be held in the varada and the abhaya poses, while the remaining two should carry the khaḍga and the kheṭaka. But if they have only two arms, the hands should keep the khaḍga and the kheṭaka.

The Kumāra-tantra mentions a much larger number of parivāra-devatās; eight, twelve, sixteen or thirty-two devatas are prescribed in it. If eight devatas are to be set up, we are told that

on the east, facing the deity, should be the figure of an elephant;
on the south-east, Śāsta;
in the south, Brahmā;
on the south-west, the Sapta-mātṛkās;
on the west, Jyeṣṭhā;
on the north-west Durgā;
on the north, Kṣetrapa
and on the north-east, Sumitraka.

The names of the parivāra-devatas of the groups of twelve are:

the elephant,
Sūrya,
Śāsta,
Brahmā,
Yama,
Sapta-mātṛkās,
Varuṇa,
Agastya,
Durgā,
Bārada,
Śrīśa and
Sumitra.

The following are the names of the sixteen parivāra-devatās:—

the elephant,
Brahmā,
Agastya,
Nārada,
Sumitraka,
Śukra,
Bṛhaspati,
Durgā,
Ditī,
Aditī,
Dhandra,
Sūrya,
Śāsta,
Mahālakṣmī,
Bhāratī and
the Sapta-mātṛkās.

To make up the thirty-three parivāra-devatas, the following are added to the above mentioned sixteen deities, namely, the

Aṣṭa-dikpālakas,
Sudeha,
Sureśa,
Sukukha,
Bhṛṅgi,
Vāsuki,
Aṣṭavara
(vakra ?),
Bhṛṅgi
(Bhṛgu ?),
Dakṣa-Prajāpati,
Vīrabhadra,
Śukra,
Bhū,
Jyeṣṭha
and two others.

Source: Shodhganga: The significance of the mūla-beras (śilpa)

Parivāradevata (परिवारदेवत) refers to the “gods related in a family” whose images are found scattered within Hindu temples.—T. A. Gopinath Rao points out the specificities of each temple by saying that each temple is filled with numerous images of gods, goddesses, parivāra-devatas (gods related in a family), devas (attendants to the gods), śālagrāmās (cakra–an ammonite shell), bānaliṅgās (egg-shaped pebbles), yantras (mystic and magical diagrams engraved upon metallic plates), navagrahas (the nine planetary divinities), certain divine animals and birds, certain holy rivers, tanks, trees and sepulchers of saints.

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

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