Shiva-Parvati (Iconography)
author: Thomas Eugene Donaldson
edition: 2007, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1201
ISBN-10: 8124603596
ISBN-13: 9788124603598
Topic: Shilpashastra
Kalyanasundara-murti (Marriage)
This chapter describes Kalyanasundara-murti (Marriage) located on page 126 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 Iconography and Images of Marriage and conjugal life.
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Kashyapa Shilpa-shastra (study) [by K. Vidyuta]
(north-east) and in Indra s place Kalyanasundara murti (XLIII. 73): sheshamshe madanarih syanmukhye kalarimurtinam | ditayetvardhanarisham handre kalyanasundaram || In the vastupada presided by Parjanya (east), Kshetrapala murti is placed; in Yama s (south) place Dakshinamurti has to be installed; Lingodbhavamurti in the place of Varuna (west) and in the place of Soma (north) Gajasamharamurti is to be established (XLIII. 74): kshetrapalastu parjanye yamye vai dakshineshvaram | varunye lingamudbhutam saumye...
Read full contents: 7. Favourable Directions for Installing the Shiva Murtis
The Religion and Philosophy of Tevaram (Thevaram) [by M. A. Dorai Rangaswamy]
X If there is not the background of the marriage scene, this is only Shiva and Parvati standing in the form called Umasahita Candrasekhara murti....
Read full contents: Chapter 1.3 - Umabhaga-murti (depiction of the Mother Goddess)
Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary) [by Shri Shrimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja]
He says, “He was Yajna-murti, the embodiment of sacrifice, in the sense that His very body was yajna. Holding the sruk and sruva ladles and other implements used in sacrifice, He appeared as the personified form of yajna.”...
Read full contents: Verse 2.2.49
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[Shiva-Parvati (Iconography): index]
[About the Author (Thomas Eugene Donaldson)]
[Introduction]