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-murti
This chapter describes Ardhanarisvara-murti located on page 226 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 Ancillary motifs of Siva with 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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Kashyapa Shilpa-shastra (study) [by K. Vidyuta]
murti (lord along with Hari) is to be installed in the place of Sugriva (west) and in the place presided by Gandharva (south-west) Candrashekhara murti is installed (XLIII. 72): sukhasanam tu satyamshe vitathe tripurantakam | sugrive harirardham syad gandharve candrashekharam || In the place of Shesha (pada presided by him, north-west) Lord Shiva who burnt Kamadeva; in the place of Mukhya (also north-west) Kalasamhara murti is to be established; Ardhanarishvara idol must be installed in the place of Diti...
Read full contents: 7. Favourable Directions for Installing the Shiva Murtis
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.”...
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[Shiva-Parvati (Iconography): index]
[About the Author (Thomas Eugene Donaldson)]
[Introduction]