Shiva-Parvati (Iconography)
author: Thomas Eugene Donaldson
edition: 2007, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1201
ISBN-10: 8124603596
ISBN-13: 9788124603598
Topic: Shilpashastra
Ardhanarisvara
This chapter describes Ardhanarisvara located on page 60 in the book Shiva-Parvati and Allied Images (Their Iconography and Body Language). This book deals with the study of sculptures of Shiva-Parvati and other images such as the Murtis of Anugraha, Umamaheshvara and Umasahita as well as the mythological background of the deities represents by those sculptures. The two volumes contain over 700 images dedicated to the study of postures and body language of various sculptures, the sculptor’s technique.. This chapter is part of the collection Mythological Background: Ancillary motifs of Siva and Parvati.
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Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Treatment for fever (91): Ardha-narishvara rasa and Tridoshadavanala rasa. Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, aconite, and borax are to be rubbed together and made into a black powder which is to be put inside the mouth of a black cobra (killed only a short time ago), which is to be coated with mud and kept inside an earthen vessel which is then to be filled with salt on all sides of the snake. The mouth of the vessel is then to be closed with an earthen basin and mud....
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The Linga Purana [by J. L. Shastri]
(* 1) The half man and half woman, form of Shiva known as ‘ardha-narishvara . It symbolises the origin of creation by copulation. Of. Mahabharata. as quoted in Shivatoshini. —[na padmanka na cakranka na vajranka yatah prajah | linganka ca bhaganka ca tasmad maheshvari praja] (* 2) Of. Bhagvadgaita:—[yad yadacarati shreshthas tattadevetaro janah | sa yat pramanam kurute lokastadanuvartate ||] || Quoted in Shivatoshini. (* 3) See p. 18. note 27. (* 4) Vamatvam—savya-marga-prakarah Shivatoshini....
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Lakulisha-Pashupata (Philosophy and Practice) [by Geetika Kaw Kher]
The conception of Ardhanarishvara may have been inspired by Vedic literature s composite figure of Yama-Yami later adopted as Yab-Yum figures in Vajrayana Buddhism. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says that Purusha splits himself into two parts, male and female, and the two halves copulate, producing all life–a theme concurrent in Ardhanarishvara s tales. The Svetasvatara Upanishad sows the seed of the Puranic Ardhanarishvara....
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